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Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Speech to the League of Women Voters - June 14, 1994
June 14, 1994
Thank you very much. I have been in this room to give many speeches. I don't think I've ever seen a more enthusiastic, vocal crowd. And I wouldn't expect anything less from members of the League who have been leading the way for now nearly 75 years and have, in the past, taken on difficult and controversial stands in a nonpartisan way, putting the public's interest first, and this country owes all of you a great debt. I want to thank Becky for that introduction and, more than that, for […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Subject and Sovereign - c. 1893
January 1, 1893
This speech contains many graphic descriptions of events that, while based in fact, are framed in a way some may find offensive. “Subject and Sovereign” Across the State of South Dakota there flows the great Missouri River. Its deep turgid waters and low bluffs, cut into two parts a vast, fertile plain, stretching away to the Eastward, until it is merged in the prairies of Iowa and Nebraska, and to the Westward, until it is lost in the lines of the Black Hills. On the East side, it is known […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Looking Forward - March 1919
March 1, 1919
Suffrage Convention March 1919 Article C.C.C. There was a triple significance in the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association held at St. Louis in the last week of March of this year. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of equal suffrage as a working principle of government; the Jubilee of the National Association’s, and the inauguration of a new force in American political life. A half century ago, the legislature of the territory of Wyoming had granted women the same political privileges as the men of […]
Anna Howard Shaw
Speeches
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic - June 21, 1915
June 21, 1915
When I came into your hall tonight, I thought of the last time I was in your city. Twenty- one years ago I came here with Susan B. Anthony, and we came for exactly the same purpose as that for which we are here tonight. Boys have been born since that time and have become voters, and the women are still trying to persuade American men to believe in the fundamental principles of democracy, and I never quite feel as if it was a fair field to argue this question […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Outlook (Boston Festival) - May 10, 1905
May 10, 1905
In this speech, Catt chastised Western states for the perceived hypocrisy of rebuking woman suffrage while also touting a liberal society. Upon occasions like this, one is expected to express only the thoughts which are gay, optimistic and joyous. I confess that I like that kind of speech at a social gathering, yet my mood bids me talk of more serious things tonight. Within the past eight months, thirty-five of our forty eight states have held legislative sessions. The proceedure of each legislature has now passed into history. These records […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
The New Time - July 4, 1905
July 4, 1905
This transcript housed at the New York Public Library is undated, but Catt gave a speech called "The New Time" on July 4, 1905, at NAWSA's national convention in Portland, Oregon. Source: Walker, L. C. (1950). The speeches and speaking of Carrie Chapman Catt [Unpublished dissertation]. Northwestern University. This the 4th of July. In every city and village and hamlet throughout our country to-day, orators to-day have recounted the strange and picturesque story of the birth and marvelous growth of this greatest of nations. Tonight, around banquet boards, still other […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Social Purity - c. 1886
January 1, 1886
This speech was presented before the Polk County (Iowa) Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. President, Members of the Woman's Suffrage Association, and Friends: I was requested at the last meeting of this society to present a paper upon the slavery of women to the great social vice of the world. Leaving out of this discussion the heathen nations and their practices, we find enough of social degradation in the civilized and Christian world to cause every woman's heart to sink before the appalling picture. Through the long and dreary ages out […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
The Traffic in Women - 1899
January 1, 1899
A few weeks ago, the police of San Francisco made a raid upon a Chinese resort and captured three Chinese slave girls who had been imprisoned in the place after having been smuggled into the City from a Pacific Mail Steamer a month previous. These girls by some unaccountable means have been successfully passed by Federal officers, bundled into a taxi cab, and carried to this resort where they had been forcibly detained and compelled to immorality. A fellow Chinese had a grudge against the keeper of the "joint" and […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
The Civil and Social Evolution of Women - May 16, 1893
May 16, 1893
This speech, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was read by Susan B. Anthony at the World's Congress of Representative Women at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. It has often been stated that if the majority of women really wanted their civil rights they could have them. This is doubtless true, since a whole nation could not, in the nature of things, be decapitated, nor the combined and persistent claim of a whole class in a community be ignored. But the majority of women do not as yet appear to […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Remarks Made at the Dedication of the New Mott School - 17 May 1909
May 17, 1909
Life An Appreciation of Lucretia Mott: If you had happened to visit Nantucket (and the children who have studied Geography know that Nantucket is an island fifteen miles long and three and a half miles wide, lying far out into the sea on the coast of Massachusetts) - If you had visited this island 116 years ago, I say, and had knocked at the door of a house in which a family by the name of Coffin resided, a little girl then six years old might have responded to your […]