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Alice Paul
Speeches
Forming the Woman's Party - April 9, 1916
April 9, 1916
Paul delivered this speech at a conference of national officers, state officers and members of the advisory council of the Congressional Union. This is the third time we have called together the members of our Advisory Council and our state and national officers to lay before them a new project. The first time was at Newport when we proposed a campaign against all Democratic candidates for Congress in the Suffrage States. The second time was a year ago in New York when we proposed to convert the Congressional Union into […]
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 […]
Ernestine L Rose
Speeches
Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention - Oct. 15, 1851
October 15, 1851
After having heard the letter read from our poor incarcerated sisters of France, well might we exclaim, Alas! poor France! where is thy glory? Where the glory of the Revolution of 1848, in which shone forth the pure and magnanimous spirit of an oppressed nation, struggling for Freedom? Where the fruits of that victory that gave to the world the motto, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity? A motto destined to hurl the tyranny of kings and priests into the dust, and give freedom to the enslaved millions of the earth. Where, […]
Nina Evans Allender
categories: Historical Print, Political Ads
"His Last Chance" - March 1, 1919
March 1, 1919
Source: Allender, N. (1919) "His Last Chance" / Allender, 1919. March 1. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020632298/. Transcription, from left to right: "Save Democracy" "Suffrage Amendment" "Senate"
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Woman's Place is in the Home - March 7, 1916
March 7, 1916
Mrs. Catt’s Speech Tuesday Evening March 7th, 1916, Harrisburg, Penna. It is only a few months since a very remarkable thing happened – over a million men went to the polls and voted “yes” on Woman Suffrage in four conservative, reactionary Eastern States. And, when the votes were counted, there was not a woman in one of those four states who regarded that vote as final. A few took time to draw a long breath before beginning again, but some of us never lost an hour. We only said that […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Statement before U.S. House Judiciary Committee – Feb. 16, 1904
February 16, 1904
Catt's Opening Statement Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, last year when we appeared before the committee to speak in behalf of the bill asking the submission of the 16th Amendment, we also we also petitioned this committee to use its influence for the appointment of a commission which should investigate the operation of woman's suffrage in the States where it now exists. We called the attention of the committee to the fact that Congress had appointed a great many commissions for investigation of the conditions, political and otherwise, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Political Parties and Women Voters (On the Inside) - Feb. 14, 1920
February 14, 1920
Address delivered to the Congress of the League of Women Voters. I am going to ask your indulgence while I make a few remarks on the subject of the League of Women Voters. Bismarck one time said that it was "Impossible to overestimate the stupidity of the human race." Now, it is true that we are all stupid; we are so stupid on the one hand that we can't express an idea so that other people will get the same understanding we have, and on the other, we are so […]