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Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage - Feb. 21, 1894
February 21, 1894
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: I have not been present during the whole sitting and therefore do not know what points have been brought up before this body. I wish to impress one thought which oftentimes seems to me to be overlooked; that is, the fact that woman suffrage is no longer a theory, but is a fact in many places and in many parts of the world. Woman suffrage is a fact in England and in New Zealand. The reports from New Zealand have been exceedingly fine […]
Anna Howard Shaw
Speeches
Address at the Boone, Iowa, Suffrage Parade - Oct. 29, 1908
October 29, 1908
Shaw, then president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, gave this address at the Boone, Iowa, suffrage parade, one of the first suffrage parades in the United States. The Woman's Standard, a newspaper published by the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association from 1886-1911, reported that Shaw "…held the breathless attention of her hearers, wit, humor, pathos, sentiment and clear, hard logic from one to the other she passed, naturally, entirely without self-consciousness, with the greatest sincerity of manner and at time with much dramatic fire." The principles upon which our […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Suffrage Speech in New Orleans, Louisiana - Jan 22, 1895
January 22, 1895
This speech was reported in the Jan. 23, 1895 issue of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. Catt and Susan B. Anthony both spoke to a large crowd. I am sure there are rising in your hearts many objections as to the practicable working of this theory as though Henry George should come here and present his theory, or Bellamy his ideal government—it is all very well in theory, but will it work? Twenty-seven years ago this month an incident happened in the Rocky mountains which proves the woman suffrage […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage - April 26, 1913
April 26, 1913
Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am here as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to beg of the Committee on Woman Suffrage of the Senate a hearing in behalf of the proposed amendment to the Constitution granting to the women of the United States the privileges of citizenship and the right of suffrage. For nearly half a century the women of this nation have come here year after year, at every session of Congress, making this claim, that the women citizens of the United States […]
Lucy Stone
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the Senate Committee on Women Suffrage – Feb 20, 1892
February 20, 1892
I come before this committee with the sense which I always feel, that we are handicapped as women in what we try to do for ourselves by the single fact that we have no vote. This cheapens us. You do not care so much for us as if we had votes, so that we come always with that infinite disadvantage. But the thing I want to say particularly is that we have our immortal Declaration of Independence and the various bills of rights of the different States ( George Washington […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Suffrage and the Working Woman - 1871
January 1, 1871
Speech originally collected by Ellen DuBois in her work: DuBois, Ellen. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. New York: Schocken Books, Inc. 198, Pages: 139 – 145. I come tonight . . . as a representative of the working women. I lay down my doctrine that the first step for the alleviation of their oppression is to secure them pecuniary independence. Alexander Hamilton said 100 years ago "take my right over my subsistence and you possess absolute power over my moral being." That is applicable to the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Statement at U. S. Senate Hearing before Committee on Woman Suffrage - March 3, 1908
March 3, 1908
Catt delivered this statement as the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Gentlemen and members of the committee, I can only repeat some of the things which have already been said. The conditions under which the right of suffrage can be granted to women in the United States, are harder than in any other nation in the world. We are the only nation where suffrage may not be granted by an act of Parliament, and that accounts, undoubtedly, for the great extension to suffrage that has been given to […]
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Speeches
The Negro Woman and Suffrage - June 15, 1923
June 15, 1923
THE NEGRO WOMAN AND SUFFRAGE Miss N H Burroughs -o-o-o-o-o- There are dangers ahead. Politics afford an opportunity for exploitation and bargaining. The unscrupulous and unworthy are enrolled in all political parties and constitute the real danger or menace because they can be bought and sold. White women are learning the political game. They are not as keen as they look. In the fight for reforms, they are overlooking or undervaluing their greatest moral asset - the Negro woman. The Negro woman neglected or ignored is the greatest political menace […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address, State Suffrage Conference, Saratoga - August 30, 1917
August 30, 1917
SPEECH DELIVERED BY MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT AT THE STATE SUFFRAGE CONFERENCE IN SARATOGA. AUGUST 30TH. 1917 Madam Chairman and comrades, I have wondered what I could say to you this afternoon. I wanted to state to the workers, to those of you who are bearing the heat and burden of this campaign. You do not need a plea for suffrage. I know no arguments for it that are not even better for you. I cannot tell you what to do and how to do it for your five thousand […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage – Jan. 24, 1889
January 24, 1889
Gentlemen of the committee, I feel that I come before you a very inadequate representative of the Woman's Journal and the American Woman Suffrage Association; but at the same time I am glad of the opportunity which Miss Anthony's kindness has afforded me to say a word in behalf of the proposed constitutional amendment giving suffrage to women, because while what I can say may not be of much value in itself, it gives me an opportunity to show which side I am on in desiring suffrage to be granted […]