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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 […]
Bertha von Suttner
Speeches
Speech addressed to pacifists in San Francisco - 1912
June 1, 1912
Ladies and Gentlemen, Voters of California: Very often people put the question to me "Do you believe in the possibility of Universal Peace?" It might be taken as a personal slight to be asked if one believes in the thing one and works for. But I will not consider the question from the stand point of faith, because we Pacifists have learned to consider it from the higher stand point of Science and Law. Universal Peace is not a question of possibility, but of necessity. It is not only the […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
Marriage and Divorce - Aug. 18, 1871
August 17, 1871
At the close of Mrs. Hazlett's address Mrs. ELIZABETH STANTON was introduced. As her speech is very voluminous we are compelled to abridge it by omitting the bible argument and the abstract of the marriage and divorce laws of the State of New York and comments thereon. She commenced by saying: I am invited this evening to speak on the important questions of "Marriage and Divorce." The political phase of the woman's rights movement has been so thoroughly discussed in England and this country, and has already realized so many […]
Marjorie Dannenfelser
Speeches
Address at CPAC - Feb. 28, 2019
February 28, 2018
Senator Mike Lee promised an interpretive dance and I did not see it. I think he was struggling over what to do with separation of powers and what that might look like on stage here. Maybe next time. I’m honored to join you to help you kick off the premier gathering of conservative activists in America. And, wow, have we grown since when I was here in college. Good job, Matt and Dan, this crew is amazing. You know, it’s providential that the first CPAC was held during one of […]
Melania Trump
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Republican National Committee Speech - Aug. 25, 2020
August 25, 2020
Good evening, it seems like just yesterday that we were at our first convention, where my husband accepted the Republican nomination and then became our 45th president of the United States. He had the energy and enthusiasm for who should lead this nation. It's real today as it was four years ago. I know I speak for my husband and the entire family when I say we have not forgotten the incredible people who were willing to take a chance on the businessman who has never worked in politics. We […]
Mabel Vernon
Speeches
The Picketing Campaign Nears Victory – Dec. 7, 1917
December 7, 1917
Vernon addresses the Advisory Council Conference of the NWP. I should like to go back to the 9th of last January. Probably a great many of you went to the President on that day in a delegation which presented to him the resolutions adopted at the memorial services for Inez Milholland. In San Francisco and in New York memorial services were held, and on Christmas day in Statuary Hall at the Capitol there was that beautiful service that many of us remember; it made an impression, I think, that we […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Address at Dedication of Bronze Tablet in Iowa Capital Building - 10 May 1936
May 10, 1936
At Dedication Bronze Tablet in Capital Building Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday, May 10, 1936 I attended my first Iowa Convention fifty-one years ago, in 1885, at Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Narcissa T. Bemis, of Independence, was then the fifth president. She was a handsome, stately woman who possessed so complete a knowledge of parliamentary usage and applied it with such rare skill and poise that I regarded her as a phenomenon. She served in different capacities on the Board for some years and was always an outstanding figure. I was […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
The Solitude of Self - Jan. 18, 1892
January 18, 1892
SOLITUDE OF SELF Address Delivered by Mrs. Stanton Before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress Monday, January 18, 1892 LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Suffrage Speeches Records NO 1 (II) A Souvenir in Memory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Reprinted from the Congressional Record and presented as a Birthday Centennial gift. 10,000 copies of this speech, which Mrs. Stanton considered her best and delivered when she was 77 years of age, were printed, placed in envelopes and franked to all parts of the United States […]
Anita Hill
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement address at Wesleyan University - May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018
Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here. I want to thank the Board of Trustees, President Roth and the faculty and staff of Wesleyan who have made this singular recognition possible. I proudly accept this honorary degree and the privilege of addressing the class of 2018. Class of 2018, so far you have been fairly reserved and quiet, and I suspect that at some point, maybe right now, you want to make some noise. [cheers and clapping] I also want to thank my fellow honoree, Dr. [Joshua] Boger, […]
Anita Hill
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Rutgers Law School - May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018
Good afternoon – or is it morning still? I want to thank Chancellor Haddon. You know, I knew her as professor. We have had a three-decade-long relationship, and I could not be more proud of the work that she has done and is doing in leading this university. So can I just get a round of applause. I want to thank the Board of Trustees, Dean's Chen and Cahill for this singular honor and recognition – an honorary degree and the opportunity to address this gathering. I will stand a […]