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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 […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Demand for Party Recognition - May 4, 1894
May 4, 1894
This speech was delivered in an effort to get a woman suffrage plank included in the Republican and Populist party platforms in Kansas. I come to you tonight not as a stranger, not as an outsider but, in spirit and in every sense, as one of you. I have been connected with you by the ties of relationship for nearly forty years. Twenty-seven years ago I canvassed this entire State of Kansas in your first woman suffrage campaign. During the last decade I have made a speaking tour of your […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I had the honor of appearing before you last August as woman voter when you very kindly received the delegation of woman voters who were meeting here in Washington. With your permission I will refer to a little discussion at that time and to a point which the committee made and which seemed to me at the moment well taken, that the Rules Committee had no power to appoint a committee on woman 's suffrage because of the fact that Congress did not […]
Mabel Vernon
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
Mr. Chairman and members of the Judiciary Committee, the reason that we women come bothering Congress with a question of this kind is because we believe that woman suffrage is a national question which deeply concerns the women of this entire country; and if we do not come presenting our own case we fear that it will not be presented at all. [Applause.] The reason I dare to say that woman suffrage is a national question is because, first of all, we believe that citizenship is a fundamental thing in […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
"Alas! Poor Adam" - c. June 1870
June 1, 1870
Bloomer gave this address several times, including in June 1870 at the Baptist church in Des Moines, Iowa, at the city's first woman suffrage meeting. Among the many obstacles thrown in the way of woman's progress and enfranchisement, there is a very serious one in the minds of many which I wish briefly to consider this evening. It is one that has not only made her submissive and in a measure contented in her inferior, subject state, but has in numberless instances caused her untold sorrow and made her life […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio Address - August 26, 1925
August 26, 1925
Five years ago today the women of the United States, one and all, became voters. Through the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, the process prescribed by the Federal constitution was completed and from the status of political nonentities women were promoted to that of responsible citizens. From that moment women, equally with men, became accountable for all action of our government, local, state and nation. They became equal arbiters of all political policies, problems and propaganda - inescapably equal creators of the destiny of a great nation. For five years […]
Addie Waites Hunton
Speeches
Y. W. C. A. - 1915
August 1, 1904
Waite's remarks from "Votes for Women: A Symposium by Leading Thinkers of Colored Women" held in Washington, D.C., as published in the August 1915 issue of The Crisis. Waites was a former adviser to the National Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A.. A membership of more than a half million, representing some seventeen nationalities, makes the Young Women's Christian Association a world movement. In the United States three hundred tho11sand members, distributed in 979 college, city and county associations have as their objective the advancement of the "physical, social, intellectual, […]
Ernestine L Rose
Speeches
Address On Woman's Rights - October 19, 1851
October 19, 1851
My Friends: -The observing and reflecting mind that casts his vision far beyond the panoramic scenes of every-day life, must perceive that our present age is fast ripening for the most important changes in the affairs of man. The desire for Freedom has shaken Europe to its very centre. The love of Liberty has convulsed the nations like the mighty throes of an earthquake. The oppressed are struggling against the oppressors. Kings and priests are called upon to give an account of their stewardship, for man no longer believes in […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
Presidential Campaign Announcement - January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019
I am so proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California. And as most of you know, I was born just up the road at Kaiser Hospital. And it was just a few miles away my parents first met as graduate students at UC Berkeley where they were active in the civil rights movement. They were born half a world apart from each other. My father, Donald, came from Jamaica to study economics. My mother, Shyamala, came from India to study the science of fighting disease. They came here in […]
Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States - July 4, 1876
July 4, 1876
This declaration was written by Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). For the 1876 Independence Day ceremony in Philadelphia, PA, five members of the women's suffrage movement (Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sara Andrews Spencer, Lillie Devereux Blake and Phoebe W. Couzins) were given platform passes to observe the proceedings but were denied the chance to present their declaration. After Senator Richard Henry Lee finished reading the original Declaration of Independence, the women quickly moved to […]