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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 […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
The Will of the People - March 1911
January 1, 1911
THE ALUMNUS IOWA STATE COLLEGE VOL. VI. MARCH 1911. NO. 6 The Will of the People CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, ’80. The civilized world, sooner or later, must accept, and must establish woman suffrage for one unanswerably logical reason: the “will of the people” is surely destined to be the future sovereign of the world, and women are people. The evolution of society, leading unmistakably to governments “of the people, by the people and for the people,” has made a steady march forward since the days of the English Magna Charta, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Empire State Campaign Committee Report - 1914
January 1, 1914
Empire State Campaign Com. REPORT 1914 At the State Convention of 1913, it was voted to unite with other organizations in the formation of a State Campaign Committee. Several meetings were held in New York City before a definite union was effected. The Empire State Campaign Committee was formed on November 1st, and hence has been at work eleven months. Its labored at the beginning under the disadvantage of having to establish its headquarters, secure help, divide work and set campaign machinery in motion. It decided to emphasize for the […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Political Advancement of Women – 1905
January 1, 1905
I cannot be told when the first idea of woman's equality had place in the world­ certainly as long ago as the days of Plato, 300 years before Christ. All down the centuries here and there have been individuals who believed in equality between men and women. In Colonial days, Margaret Brent asked that she might vote in her state of Maryland. After the French Revolution, more than 100 years ago, __ asked that female suffrage might be included in the law of the New Republic. But not until 1848 […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Speech in Portland, Oregon - 1905
January 1, 1905
We bring you a word tonight from that broad plateau which is drained by the three great rivers of the country, with the giant Rockies on one side and the mighty Alleghenies on the other - the states of the Middle West lean smilingly to the southland's sunny slopes. With their rich deposits of metals and coal, with their wooded hills and sparkling streams - and with a soil so generous that if you tickle it with a hoe, it will laugh with the harvest; we are confident that it […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Women Voters - Are You Satisfied With? - June 23, 1939
June 23, 1939
The following transcript contains three versions of this National Broadcasting Company radio address. As prepared and given Equal citizenship and the vote were added to the program of the Woman Movement in 1848. That campaign began with practically the entire world against it; it closed seventy-two years later with an organization of two millions of women at work within it its ranks. Today, no woman is uneducated for want of schools and every woman citizen has a ballot in her hand. Mrs. [Eva vom Baur] Hansl asks me, as one […]
Matilda J Gage
Speeches
On The Progress Of Education And Industrial Avocations For Women - 1871
January 1, 1871
Twenty years ago the first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was presided over by our present honored Chairman, Mrs. Davis. The reform had for years been agitated in a small way, and conventions had been held at different points but, until the Worcester Convention, none of these had arisen to the dignity of national. Great has been the change since that Convention, whose second decade we celebrate, and it has fallen upon me to especially call your attention to the advanced educational facilities enjoyed by […]
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Speeches
Woman's Political Future - May 20, 1893
May 20, 1893
Harper gave this address before the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. If before sin had cast its deepest shadows or sorrow had distilled its bitterest tears, it was true that it was not good for man to be alone, it is no less true, since the shadows have deepened and life's sorrows have increased, that the world has need of all the spiritual aid that woman can give for the social advancement and moral development of the human race. The tendency of the […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
An Appeal to Colored Women to Vote and Do their Duty in Politics - 1921
January 1, 1921
[ca. 1921] An Appeal to Colored Women to Vote and Do their Duty in Politics. 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 […]
Lynn Sherr
Speeches
Outside the Box: Women, Politics and Media - Nov. 28, 2006
November 28, 2006
Sherr spoke at Iowa State University as the Fall 2006 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. By an accident of timing and pure good luck, I have lived the glory years of network television journalism—when news was still recognized as a public service and when getting the story was the only thing that mattered, when we were reality TV. At its best it’s been energizing and humbling and very, very satisfying. I really like getting bad guys. I relish being part of the electronic hearth as I know […]