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Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 3, 1914
March 3, 1914
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Judiciary Committee, in a published statement yesterday the Secretary of State, over his own signature, used these simple, .direct, easily understood words: All believers in a republic accept the doctrine that the government must derive its just powers from the consent of the governed, and the President gives every legitimate encouragement to those who represent this idea of government, while he discourages those who attempt to overthrow or ignore the principle of popular government. I am sure that all of us who know the […]
Lucy Stone
Speeches
Disappointment is the Lot of Women - Oct. 17, 1855
October 17, 1855
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. When, with my brothers, I reached forth after the sources of knowledge, I was reproved with "It isn't fit for you; it doesn't belong to women." Then there was but one college in the world where women were admitted, and that was in Brazil. I would have found my way there, but by the time I was prepared to go, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Problem Stated - 1924
January 1, 1924
THE PROBLEM STATED “Carthage must be destroyed”, said Cato every day as he rose to address the Roman senate. Today we are faced by an enemy more cruel than Carthage, more lustful of power than Napoleon, more tyrannical than Prussianism, more bloodthirsty than Moloch, an enemy of which, like Cato, we should declare every day “it must be destroyed”, until we have finally extirpated it forever. If not destroyed, it will destroy us. I speak of war. War must be outlawed if humanity is to survive. I believe the thinking […]
Ida Husted Harper
Speeches
Women in Municipal Government – May 16, 1893
May 16, 1893
Harper gave this address at the World's Congress of Representative Women. When the young people of the present generation read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the speeches of Garrison and Phillips, and the history of antebellum days, they are filled with amazement. They are unable to comprehend that the monstrous evil of slavery existed and flourished in this beautiful country, and found its defenders among ministers and church members and the so-called best element of society. "And you named this the land of the free," they exclaim, "when three million human […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
Temperance II / A Score of Years Ago – 1870s
January 1, 1870
Bloomer gave this speech while in Iowa, possibly in both Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. I would gladly have been excused from a participation in the proceedings of this meeting, but the invitation was so pressing I could not well refuse without seeming indifference, or opposition, to the great question we have met to consider. With several gentlemen engaged to speak good words on this occasion, it seemed to me that anything I could say would be superfluous, but the committee thought differently, and as I have never yet […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
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 Rules Committee, as I understand it, this hearing is not to be a forum for the discussion of the general question of woman suffrage but is to be confined to the one point for which this committee has appointed this time for discussion, namely, whether or not the Rules Committee shall recommend to Congress the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage for the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to give such of its time and attention to this question as […]
Lillie Devereux Blake
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: We are here to ask you to take measures to protect all the women of this nation in the right of suffrage, a privilege now most unjustly denied to a majority of them, who are still in the condition of the subjects of a monarchy, forced to submit to a government to which they have not consented and to pay taxes without representation. A few considerations will prove that this injustice, this denial of our chartered rights, is inflicted in defiance of the […]
Florence Kelley
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
The Working Woman's Need of the Ballot - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Kelley gave this address in a hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage in the U.S. Senate. No one needs all the powers of the fullest citizenship more urgently than the wage-earning woman, and from two different points of view—that of actual money wages and that of her wider needs as a human being and a member of the community. The wages paid any body of working people are determined by many influences, chief among which stands the position of the particular body of workers in question. Thus the printers, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
The Hope of the Founders - 26 March 1930
March 26, 1930
This speech was given as a radio address over a nation-wide hook-up on the National Broadcasting Company’s system. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of woman suffrage and of the founding of the League of Women Voters. You ask me what HOPE led to the founding of the League of Women Voters. None at all. When suffragists were marching upward, on the last lap of their century old campaign, they spied Old Age coming down the path to meet them. They knew they would be caught soon, for they had […]
Anna Howard Shaw
Speeches
The Fate of Republics - May 1893
May 1, 1893
The study of the rise and fall of great republics shows a remarkable correspondence in them all. They all had like beginnings, having been established by a body of people whose views were in advance of the age and the people among whom they dwelt; who were driven forth from their native country or became voluntary exiles, wandering into new lands, establishing a new system of government, the central idea of which was civil and religious liberty. About this central idea, by industry, perseverance, indomitable courage and patriotism, republics have […]