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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
The Destructive Male - 1868
January 1, 1868
I urge a sixteenth amendment, because 'manhood suffrage,' or a man's government, is civil, religious, and social disorganization. The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition, breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disorder, disease, and death. See what a record of blood and cruelty the pages of history reveal! Through what slavery, slaughter, and sacrifice, through what inquisitions and imprisonments, pains and persecutions, black codes and gloomy creeds, the soul of humanity has struggled for the centuries, while mercy has […]
Crystal Eastman
Speeches
Now We Can Begin - 1920
December 1, 1920
Eastman delivered the speech "Now We Can Begin" following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, outlining the work still to do to achieve gender equality. It was published in The Liberator in December, 1920. Most women will agree that August 23, the day when the Tennessee legislature finally enacted the Federal suffrage amendment, is a day to begin with, not a day to end with. Men are saying perhaps "Thank God, this everlasting woman's fight is over!" But women, if I know them, are saying, "Now at last we can […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
The Parting of the Ways – Dec. 30, 1903
December 30, 1903
Following is a brief of a speech Catt presented to the Michigan Teachers Convention in 1903. As all the world knows, the American people, were the first to establish a general system of free education. Our fathers were not impelled to this undertaking by motives of charity or philanthropy. There was thought of giving a free gift to the people, because education was good for them to have it. Instead, popular education came as the inevitable and necessary adjunct of the movement toward democratic government. The idea of a Republic […]