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Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
The Woman Question I / Indeed It Was So Novel - date unknown
[The first page(s) of this speech is missing in Bloomer's manuscript.] …From that time on, with varying success, the cause has gone forward. Like all other progressive movements, it has from the first met with ridicule and opposition. Every conceivable objection has been brought forward against its claims—objections which if raised in a case against the enfranchisement of men would have been deemed weak and silly in the extreme. Its leaders have been misunderstood, misrepresented, belied and opposed. And yet this despised movement for the elevation and emancipation of the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment – Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
Catt delivered this speech before a U.S. Senate committee. A survey of the changes which have been wrought within the past hundred years in the status of women—educational, social, financial and political—fills the observing man or woman with a feeling akin to awe. No great war has been fought in behalf of their emancipation; no great political party has espoused their cause; no heroes have bled and died for their liberty; yet words fail utterly to measure the distance between the "sphere" of the woman of 1800 and that of […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
Votes for All - Nov. 1917
November 1, 1917
This article by Catt appeared in the November 1917 issue of The Crisis, the monthly publication of the NAACP. Over in Europe the greatest war that history has ever known is shaking the foundations of kingdoms and empires. Millions of men have been blown to atoms in the Titanic struggle. Billions of dollars have been burned up in the smoke and fire of its battles. The whole world is locked in the struggle and the struggle is to the death. What is it all about? What is the idea underneath […]
Ernestine L Rose
Speeches
Address to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association - May 9, 1867
May 9, 1967
This address was given at the Church of the Puritans. After all, we come down to the root of all evil—to money. It is rather humiliating, after the discourse that we have just heard, that told us of the rise and progress and destruction of nations, of empires and of republics, that we have to come down to dollars and cents. We live in an entirely practical age. I can show you in a few words that if we only had sufficient of that root of all evil in our […]
Frances Willard
Speeches
Temperance and Home Protection - 1876
January 1, 1876
This speech was delivered at the Third Annual Convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Newark, New Jersey. The rum power looms like a Chimborazo among the mountains of difficulty over which our native land must climb to reach the future of our dreams. The problem of the rum power's overthrow may well engage our thoughts as women and as patriots. To-night I ask you to consider it in the light of a truth which Frederick Douglass has embodied in these words: "We can in the long run trust […]
J.K. Rowling
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award Acceptance Speech - May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
Firstly, I want to say thank you very, very much for this huge honor, given as it is by an organization that I have admired very deeply for many, many years. It’s also been an absolute privilege to share this stage tonight with your previous honorees. PEN’s campaigns on behalf of imprisoned writers are essential and inspirational, though it is sad to reflect how much, how needed your defense of writers continues to be today. Speaking personally, I have very little to complain about where my freedom of expression is […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Colored College Women in Politics - 1925
January 1, 1925
Colored College Women in Politics. [1925] All women should be interested in the political affairs of the country in which they live. So far as in them lies all women should inform themselves, not only about conditions in their own country, but about those which obtain all over the civilized world. But the duty of studying carefully the measures proposed and the questions discussed in the National Congress, in their respective State legislatures and in their respective city or town Councils devolves upon no group of women more than upon […]
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 […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Nation Calls - March 24, 1919
March 24, 1919
Catt's presidential address at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in 1919. Every suffragist will hope for a fitting commemoration of this 50th Anniversary of our national organization and the Golden Jubilee of the first grant of full suffrage to women. She will hope for a memorial dedicated to the memory of our brave departed leaders, to the sacrifices they made for our cause, to the scores of victories won. She will not be content with resolutions of self congratulation; with speeches of tribute; nor will any suffragist propose […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Address Delivered Upon Return from IWSA Special Conference - 1927
January 1, 1927
I have just returned from a Great Adventure. I have spent 4 whole nights and five whole days in Europe! I am sure none of you ever made so brief a visit. Many folk now –a-days get such deep and important impressions in a weekend stay in a foreign land that they write a book about it. Instead I thought I’d tell those impressions to you. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance of which I was president for 20 years held its first Peace Conference in Amsterdam. It was a timid […]