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Michelle Obama
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Oberlin College Commencement Address - May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015
Hi! (Laughter and applause.) How are you all doing? (Applause.) Are you sure? (Applause.) Well, let me just tell you, it is beyond a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you today. I want to start by thanking President Krislov for that very kind introduction, as well as all of the trustees, the faculty, the staff here at Oberlin. I also want to tell you how proud and how moved I am to receive this honorary degree from this particular school -- the first college in […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Organization Among Women as an Instrument in Promoting the Interests of Political Liberty - May 20, 1893
May 20, 1893
Anthony gave this address before the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. During the week of the presentation of the work of the various organizations that have been represented in this Congress, organizations from the Old World and the New, I have been curious to learn that " all roads lead to Rome." That is to say, it doesn't matter whether an organization is called the King's Daughters, the partisan, or non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union ; whether it is called a Portia club, […]
Lucy Stone
Speeches
Nature and Revelation and Woman's Right to Vote - Nov. 25, 1856
November 25, 1856
This speech was delivered at the National Woman's Rights Convention at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. If we were living in New Zealand where there is no revelation and nobody has ever heard of one, there would yet be an everlasting truth or falsehood on this question of woman's rights, and the inhabitants of that island would settle it in some way, without revelation. The true test of every question is its own merits. What is true will remain. What is false will perish like the leaves of […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Woman and War - September 1, 1914
September 1, 1914
WOMAN AND WAR Mr. Steyn, President of the Orange Free State at the time of the Boer War, told me in my visit to South Africa that in one year the women on the farms of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State produced enough food and supplies to maintain the army in the field for three years. This remark is brought back to mind by the appeal of Premier Viviani to the women of France. He called to them to complete the work of gathering the crops left unfinished […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
The Progressive Party and the Negro - 1912
January 1, 1912
THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY AND THE NEGRO. AFTERMATH OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. EXCLUSION OF NEGRO DELEGATES AND ADOPTION OF THE LILY*- WHITE POLICY BY THE FIRST NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION CAUSES SENDATION IN AMERICAN POLITICS. The Progressive Convention which terminated at Chicago August 5th, 1912, was notable for its fight upon the matter of Negro rights. Every other policy as inaugurated by the new patty was outlined in advance. Every principle upon which it was based had been decided in advance. The Progressive Leaders disgrundled by the ation of the Republican Party […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Wisconsin Women in Government - April 29, 2005
April 29, 2005
Thank you so much. Thank you, Eve. I thank all of you for being here this evening for this important cause, and for the very warm and gracious welcome. I also want to send greetings to the overflow room. I stopped there on the way in and it is about half the size of this room. Which means, I guess, it's about 800 people. And I just told them that it was the most impressive overflow room I've ever seen. I'm glad that they are here as well. This is […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
This address was written by Stanton and read by Harriet May Mills. Honorable Gentlemen: In adjusting the rights of citizens in our newly acquired possessions, the whole question of suffrage is again fairly open for discussion in the House of Representatives; and as some of the States are depriving the colored men of the exercise of the right of suffrage, and all of the States, except four, deny it to all women, I ask Congress to pass an amendment to the national Constitution declaring that citizens not allowed a voice […]
Linda K Kerber
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 29, 2009
August 29, 2009
Please copy-edit out most of those adjectives! But this is a great honor, and I’m delighted to accept. And I’m grateful to be adopted into Iowa at last; as someone who lives in a house which is still known (happily) by the name of its former owner, some 30 years later, I appreciate the seriousness of this adoption. I accept this honor in the name of my colleagues at the University of Iowa, who have sustained the work of women’s history for so long, and with thanks to the people […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Political Ads, TV
Faces- Sept. 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
FIORINA: Ladies, look at this face. And look at all of your faces. The face of leadership, the face of leadership in our party, the party of women’s suffrage, the face of leadership in your communities, in your businesses, in your places of work and worship. Ladies, note to democrat party, we are not a special interest group; we are the majority of the nation. This is the face of a sixty-one year old woman, I am proud of every year and every wrinkle.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
This Changing World - Dec. 3, 1930
December 3, 1930
Philosophers have found a new phrase which they like better than any other - it sounds so wise and scholarly - this changing phrase. They tell us that men are no longer thinking the same thoughts nor doing the same things as were their habits before the Great War. They are changing the old into a new world and filling it with new thoughts and things. They point to very ancient history when they claim men of highest development could only manage to adopt on the average one new idea […]