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Sojourner Truth
Speeches
Suppose I am about the Only Colored Woman to Speak for the Rights of Colored Women - Sept. 7, 1853
September 7, 1853
Is it not good for me to come and draw forth a spirit, to see what kind of spirit people are of? I see that some of you have got the spirit of a goose, and some have got the spirit of a snake. I feel at home here. I come to you, citizens of New York, as I suppose you ought to be. I am citizen of the state of New York; I was born in it, and I was a slave in the state of New York; and […]
Leonora O’Reilly
Speeches
Peace - June 9, 1915
June 9, 1915
O'Reilly delivered this report from the International Congress of Women, held at The Hague, Holland, on April 28-30, 1915, to the Fifth Biennial Convention of the National Women's Trade Union of America. When on April 1st I received a telegram from our National office saying, "By vote of the National Executive Board you are earnestly urged to represent League at Peace Conference, The Hague. Steamer sails April 13th." I thought some one was playing a practical joke on yours truly. My reply, however, to the call was, as nearly as […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Address before Congressional Hearing - April 20, 1917
April 20, 1917
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee on Woman Suffrage: The Senate Committee on woman suffrage was established in 1883. Thirty-four years have passed; seventeen Congresses have come and gone since then. In each Congress the National American Woman Suffrage Association through its representatives has appeared before this Committee and has appealed to it to urge the submission of a constitutional amendment to the legislatures of the several states. The stubborness of the prejudice against the application of the principle of self-government to women has been beyond understanding. Had there […]
Crystal Eastman
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 3, 1914
March 3, 1914
We have had a blizzard in in New York for the last two days, and the train has only just arrived that left New York at 12.34 last night. If that makes my opening words little flurried, please do not blame the cause. We are not before you to-day as supplicants, as powerless women petitioning your favor. We come as successful women asking in the friendliest spirit the logical, necessary, and inevitable extension of our success. To make myself quite clear I have brought along a few little maps which […]
Ruth Mandel
Speeches
Women’s Progress in Politics - Oct. 6, 1997
October 6, 1997
Mandel spoke at Iowa State University as the Fall 1997 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. I want to begin by thanking the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics here at Iowa State, particularly the Center's director, Dianne Bystrom, and [then] Dean Elizabeth Hoffman of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for inviting me to be the 1997-98 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. I am deeply honored that you and others associated with this Chair -- especially Mary Louise herself -- saw […]
Frances D Gage
Speeches
Address to the American Equal Rights Association- May 9, 1867
May 9, 1867
Transcript according to H.M. Parkhurst's phonographic report - Library of Congress. This address was given at the Church of the Puritans. First Day - Morning Session I have but little to say because it is almost 2 o'clock, and hungry and weary people are not good listeners to speeches. I shall confine my remarks therefore to one special point brought up this morning and not fully discussed. Sojourner Truth gave us the whole truth in about fifteen words: "If I am responsible for the deeds done in my body, the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
What Shall We do About War - 11 November and 8 December 1936
November 11, 1936
This post contains two versions of a speech with the same title, one given on November 11, the other on December 8, both in 1936. xx = illegible Speech delivered by Carrie Chapman Catt at Upper Montclair November 11, 1936 WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT WAR? The subject I have come to discuss is not a new one. Had we the power to turn time backward ten thousand years and could we, of today, take a trip around the world, with a stop in every continent, finding there people of […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speeches
Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later - July 16, 1998
July 16, 1998
Clinton delivered this address to an audience of 16,000 at the 150th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. I WOULD LIKE YOU to take your minds back a hundred and fifty years. Imagine if you will that you are Charlotte Woodward, a nineteen-year-old glove maker working and living in Waterloo. Every day you sit for hours sewing gloves together, working for small wages you cannot even keep, with no hope of going on in school or owning property, knowing that if you marry, your […]
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Consolidating the Gains of a Decade of Transition - Sept. 3, 2004
September 3, 2004
Ambassador Carlson, Ambassador McElveen-Hunter, Ambassador Wos, Honoured guests, As President of the Republic, as well as a woman, I am delighted and honoured to welcome all participants and guests to this Riga Women Business Leaders Summit. What an impressive array of successful and talented businesswomen have gathered here from eight different countries and two continents! I should like to extend an especial welcome to the participants from the United States of America, who probably have had the longest way to travel to get here. I would also like to express […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - Dec. 16, 1915
December 16, 1915
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Committee on the Judiciary: This, I believe, is the forty-fifth year since the first introduction of the resolution of which I wish to speak, and of which the members of my association with to speak, which is popularly known throughout the country as the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the National Constitution, but which has been known by various names in Congress because of the different gentlemen who have introduced it from Congress to Congress—this resolution is the one which we have asked to […]