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Ida B Wells-Barnett
Speeches
Lynch Law in America - January 1900
January 1, 1900
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an "unwritten law" that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. The "unwritten law" first found excuse with the rough, rugged, and determined man who left the civilized […]
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Speeches
Statement at the Smith Act Trial - April 24, 1952
April 24, 1952
Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. I am a defendant in this case, acting as my own attorney, and therefore have the opportunity to address you directly. It is unusual for a defendant to represent one’s self, but my comrade, Mr. Pettis Perry and I have elected to do so. Neither of us is a lawyer. We will speak to you in the language of laymen and women, I should say. We are both Communist leaders, proudly and avowedly. We are qualified to explain to […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio address - Oct.1928
October 1, 1928
Have you registered, fellow citizens? If not, why not? Perhaps you are among women who suffer from "inferiority complex" and think one vote will make no difference, therefore why bother to register and cast it? I've met such women, and men too. I know of a woman's political club, a party club, in a big city. Every women in it is a partisan, yet when this campaign started, it was discovered that only 33% of the membership had ever registered and voted. They were members because they liked the teas […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Statement at a Hearing Before the House Committee on Rules – Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
MRS. CATT: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, inasmuch as the United States Constitution apportioned the Members of Congress to the population of the various States, it follows that the women are equally the constituents of every Member of this Congress. Inasmuch as women ask very little, it seems to me that every courtesy ought to be extended to them on that account, and the thing that we ask for is, after all, something that is in accord with the most fundamental claims of our Government, the one which […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Lecture, Speeches
The Maine Campaign - 1915
September 17, 1915
The Maine Campaign 1915 I would like to make a confidential report concerning the Maine campaign. A Republican member from that state told Mrs. Roessing last year that the Republican Party would like to put a suffrage bill through in order that they might have the benefit of women’s vote in enforcing prohibition. The state is, as all the world knows, Republican. We inquired of the state workers the truth of this statement and learned that the State Association had asked every legislature for many years to submit an amendment […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Speech to the Women of the Eastern Division of the Republican Party - October 1932
October 1, 1932
(Oct 1932) It is a great pleasure too know that you and are to join hands together during this campaign as we have done several times before. Wit a woman like yourself assisting to do the important piece of work which we have set out to accomplish I feel like the Rock of Gibraltar is standing before, behind and beside the efforts which are about to be made. I am sure the Republican Party can count upon the active, earnest cooperation of the women of the East in this campaign […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
A Slave's Appeal - 1860
January 1, 1860
GENTLEMEN OF THE JUDICIARY: -- There are certain natural rights as inalienable to civilization as are the rights of air and motion to the savage in the wilderness. The natural rights of the civilized man and woman are government, property, the harmonious development of all their powers, and the gratification of their desires. There are a few people we now and then meet, who, like Jeremy Bentham, scout the idea of natural rights in civilization, and pronounce them mere metaphors, declaring there are no rights aside from those the law […]
Terri Sewell
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Honoring Amelia Boynton Robinson - February 11, 2014
February 11, 2014
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to continue my commitment to honoring influential African Americans from Alabama during this Black History Month. This week, we honor the heroines of the movement for civil rights and voting rights. These courageous women had tremendous roles in our nation's fight for justice and equality, and I am honored to share their stories. Today I honor the tremendous life and legacy of Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson. Amelia was a key figure in the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, and she is often […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
The Fifth Biennial of the National Association of Colored Women - 8 July 1907
July 8, 1907
The bolded text below was underlined in the original transcript. [July 8, 1907] The Fifth Biennial of the National Association of Colored Women. Tomorrow, (July 9th) the National Association of Colored Women will hold the opening meeting of its fifth Biennial in Detroit Michigan. If it were possible to enact a law compelling all the Doubting Thomases and the scoffers to attend this convention, force them attentively to listen to the proceedings and be open to conviction at one and the same time, the race problem would be much nearer […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address at the IWSA Congress in Amsterdam - June 15, 1908
June 15, 1908
Catt's address as president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the Congress in Amsterdam, June 15, 1908. It is a suggestive coincidence that the opening day of this Congress commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Immortal Magna Charta. That event stands out distinctly against the background of seven centuries, as one of the most important in the history of man. The historian Green says of it: "The Great Charter marks the transition from the age of traditional rights to the age of written legislation, of Parliaments and […]