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Frances Willard
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Oct. 1893
October 16, 1893
Beloved Comrades of the White Ribbon Army: WHEN we began the delicate, difficult, and dangerous operation of dissecting out the alcohol nerve from the body politic, we did not realize the intricacy of the undertaking nor the distances that must be traversed by the scalpel of investigation and research. In about seventy days from now, twenty years will have elapsed since the call of battle sounded its bugle note among the homes and hearts of Hillsboro, Ohio. We have all been refreshing our knowledge of those days by reading the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Sine Dr. Shaw Non - 1920
January 1, 1920
Sine Dr. Shaw Non “What better memorial to a great suffragist could there be than a university chair?” said Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and of the International League of Women Voters, upon her return from the national suffrage convention in Chicago, where the memorial to Dr. Shaw as defined in the Bryn Mawr Shaw Chair of Political Science and the Barnard Chair of Citizenship found so much favor. “Without Dr. Shaw – and in this case, Dr. Shaw means a whole host […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Closing Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Let me again thank our witnesses today. We have seen bravery and honor in these hearings. And Ms. Matthews and Mr. Pottinger – both of you will be remembered for that. As will Cassidy Hutchinson. She sat here alone, took the oath, and testified before millions of Americans. She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump, and by the 50, 60 and 70 year old men who hide themselves behind Executive Privilege. But like our witnesses today, she has courage, and she did it anyway. Cassidy, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
The Crisis - Sept. 7, 1916
September 7, 1916
*In 1916, an emergency convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was organized following the Republican and Democratic conventions in June. At the convention, members debated whether the NAWSA should concentrate on a federal amendment or on state legislation, or continue to work for both, with a goal of determining a course of action before the national presidential election. On September 7, the second day of the convention, Catt presented her presidential address. Several sources of "The Crisis" exist. The version shared here was published in The Woman's Journal […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Baccalaureate Address at University of Wyoming - June 12, 1921
June 12, 1921
Mr. President, the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming, and citizens of the State: In the beginning a Baccalaureate address was a sermon, and so, not to depart too far from the form, I have taken a text, and my text is from that wonderful Book of Proverb, Chapter twenty-nine and Verse eighteen -- "Where there is no vision, the people perish." I am going to interpret that text to mean that where the people have no vision, the nation perishes, and if I forget to allude to […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Whose Government is This? – April 14, 1921
April 14, 1921
Catt delivered this address at the Cleveland Convention of the League of Women Voters. The question for our consideration is whether the department of Election Laws and Methods is sufficiently important to make it a part of the work of the League of Women Voters. It may at this moment be less appealing to many women, but for that very reason it is more necessary for women voters to comprehend its need. If any other department of the League should be dropped, for example, Women in Industry, Social Hygiene, Child […]
Lynn Sherr
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Wellesley College - May 28, 1999
May 28, 1999
President Walsh, fellow Trustees, amazing faculty and staff, beaming parents and stepparents (or any relative generous enough to pay for all this)... and wonderful Class of 1999. Good morning. Good graduation. Good heavens—what have you done to our Tower? I celebrate your accomplishments and I thank you for inviting me to share this magical day. And I stand here fully aware that—except for that pile of degrees—I am the only thing standing between you and lunch. Trust me, I like lunch. Not that there's anything wrong with degrees. Especially when […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Difficulties of Negroes in the United States - Nov. 2, 1905
November 2, 1905
The bolded text below is underlined in the original transcript of this speech. Difficulties of Negroes in the United States. A Word About Lynching. There are a very few cities or towns in the United States in which a colored man can live without feeling keenly that he belongs to an “inferior” and a despised race. He may be more intelligent than his white neighbors; he may possess more of this world’s goods than they, but in their estimation he is a “nigger” still, a victim of all the odium […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women's Rights are Human Rights - Sept. 5, 1995
September 5, 1995
Thank you very much, Gertrude Mongella, for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point, distinguished delegates, and guests: I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration, a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in the community, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers, citizens, and leaders. It is also a coming together, much the way […]
Mary McLeod Bethune
Speeches
What Does American Democracy Mean to Me - Nov. 23, 1939
November 23, 1939
Democracy is for me, and for 12 million black Americans, a goal towards which our nation is marching. It is a dream and an ideal in whose ultimate realization we have a deep and abiding faith. For me, it is based on Christianity, in which we confidently entrust our destiny as a people. Under God's guidance in this great democracy, we are rising out of the darkness of slavery into the light of freedom. Here my race has been afforded [the] opportunity to advance from a people 80 percent illiterate […]