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Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Address to Delaware Legislature for Ratification – March 1920
March 22, 1920
For sixty years the educational work for the enfranchisement of women went forward without a pause. Victories were won here and there and sentiment increased everywhere. When a quarter of a million women voted in the city of Chicago in 1914, this sentiment throughout the country seemed to double over night. It gathered in groups, it became outspoken, it asked that something be done. When in 1916 the two big political parties came out squarely for woman suffrage, a sharp turn in the onward march of the movement was taken […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign Speech in Phoenix- Sept. 11, 2015
September 11, 2015
Thank you so much! Republican women I salute you, and the few men I see here too. Ladies, look at this face. This is the face of a 61 year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle. Look at all of your faces. The face of leadership, the face of leadership in our party, the party of woman's suffrage. The face of leadership in your communities, in your businesses, in your places of work and worship. Ladies, note to Democrat Party, we are not a special interest […]
Susan B. Anthony
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 23, 1880
January 23, 1880
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen: Mrs. Spencer said that I would make an argument. I do not propose to do so, because I take it for granted that the members of this committee understand that we have all the argument on our side, and such an argument would be simply a series of platitudes and maxims of government. The theory of this Government from the beginning has been perfect equality to all the people. That is shown by every one of the fundamental principles, which I need not stop to repeat. […]