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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"
Elaine Weiss
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Woman's Hour (MLS Speech) - Feb. 14, 2020
February 14, 2020
Weiss spoke at Iowa State University as the Spring 2020 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. So delighted to be here in this special place on this Historic Day. (STRUCK) It's a thrill for me to help kick off Iowa's centennial commemorations here at the Carrie Catt Center for Women and Politics. Historic day in many ways--all of them connected to your commemoration of the 19th Amend and your theme of Hard Won, Not Done. Firstly, today is the birthday of Frederick Douglass--the great abolition and civil rights […]
Emmeline Pankhurst
Speeches
Freedom or Death - Nov. 13, 1913
November 13, 1913
Mrs Hepburn, ladies and gentlemen: Many people come to Hartford to address meetings as advocates of some reform. Tonight it is not to advocate a reform that I address a meeting in Hartford. I do not come here as an advocate, because whatever position the suffrage movement may occupy in the United States of America, in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy and it has entered into the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war, and so tonight I am […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
A Message to Sweet Briar College: The Woman's Century, 1820-1920 - June 9, 1936
June 9, 1936
I bring a message to Sweet Briar College and especially to the Senior class so soon to step beyond its portals into the Great World. It is not a personal message that I bring and I hasten to add that it contains no advice, instruction or warning against threatening bugaboos. My message comes from millions of women now mostly past and gone. They lived in a single century; they endured, struggled, and suffered, almost unbelievably, in order that you, unborn in their day, might inherit privileges, opportunities and liberties for […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
An Appreciation of Frederick Douglass - Undated
An Appreciation of Frederick Douglass. (Personal Recollections) Meeting Frederick Douglass face to face was a great memorable event in anybody’s life. One could not easily forget the circumstances under which she was introduced to such a marvellous personality and such a striking figure as that great man possessed. I met him for the first time, when as a young girl I was visiting Washington. Just as I was leaving a friend’s house, I saw walking majestically down the street a tall man with broad shoulders looking the picture of one’s […]
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote at Women of the World 2016 – March 12, 2016
March 12, 2016
Good afternoon! Wow! Well, first I wanted to say how honored I am to be here. This is a wonderful, wonderful opportunity. I want to thank my new friend for providing this exciting opportunity for us to share some of our aspirations for a truly global, intersectional movement. I wear a lot of hats, and today I'm going to wear two. One is my hat as a feminist critical race theorist. In that hat, I want to talk to you about intersectionality. Over the last couple days, so many people […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
What Has Our Society Done for the Franchise - 1892
January 1, 1892
Coggeshall presented this speech before the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Your committee for the program has asked me to answer these questions: What has our society done for the franchise?, What is it doing?, What is it going to do? and Why do we work for the franchise at all? We will not pretend to answer these questions in the few minutes allowed us, but only make a few casual remarks as we choose. Twenty two years ago in Dubuque, the state's W. S. Society was born, and from that […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address to NAWSA - March 19, 1903
March 19, 1903
This speech was given on March 19, 1903 by President Carrie Chapman Catt at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. In it, Catt made the case for woman suffrage, gave an update on the Association's activities, and described the current political climate. This first paragraph was crossed out in Catt’s draft of the speech. Our delegates at least know that it has been one of my cardinal principles that a President should come before the Annual Meeting with a carefully prepared address, but I have […]
Alice Paul
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement at a Hearing Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - Dec. 16, 1915
December 16, 1915
What we have come here for is to ask just one simple little thing, that this Judiciary Committee should refer this Susan B. Anthony amendment to the House of Representatives. We are simply asking you to do the thing that you can do. I do not think we have to discuss particularly whether suffrage is right or wrong, though we have had speakers here to show that it was a good thing. All we have to ask of you is that you let the House of Representatives decide this question, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Address at the 28th Annual NAWSA Convention - Jan. 25, 1896
January 25, 1896
We must learn to concentrate our forces, our workers, our money wherever we find a vulnerable spot, no matter where it is. We must never fail to win a victory, however small, by the division our forces. It is our duty now give assistance to Arizona and to Oklahoma in order to bring these Territories into the Union as Suffrage States. It is true the population is very small, and they will bring us but one member in the House, but they will add to our force two United States […]