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Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Then and Now - National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention - Feb. 18, 1907
February 18, 1907
Some of us who happen to be extant during the early part of the 19th Century have a vivid recollection of the contrast between the then and now; especially the contrast in the condition of women. But we would go back further than our own memory takes us and glance for a moment of history, but as history records chiefly the exploits of men, we should say we will glance a moment at his story. Through all the creeping centuries, woman has been the quiet, the unknown, the uncomplaining, the […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement at a Hearing before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentleman of the committee, I wish to submit to you to-day a few remarks, in very brief compass, simply from the standpoint of common sense. I wish to recall to your memory the fact that every step of progress toward improvement in the condition of women has been opposed by exactly the same predictions of disaster as are now made in regard to equal suffrage. When my mother was trying to secure for married women the right to control their own property it was said that it […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Convention - Oct. 6, 1903
October 6, 1903
Why are we assembled here today? It has been at some inconvenience, some sacrifice. Have we found that our environment in the world is not the best for our development. That the work which needs our doing is hindered because of the environment. Believing that neither man nor woman can do their best work under present conditions; then being people of good sense, we the people here assembled from all parts of the state do solemnly declare that we will change these conditions. We believe we are right. We believe […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage – April 2, 1888
April 2, 1888
Honorable gentlemen, for many successive years a class of women, fully comprehending the dignity of citizenship in a Republic, have appeared before committees of the House and Senate, praying that the national Constitution should be so interpreted or amended as to secure to the women of the nation all the rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens. During this discussion the basic principles of republican government, the Declaration of Independence, the national Constitution, have been thoroughly studied by us, until it may be truly said that the leaders in the suffrage […]
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
Women's Suffrage IX/Labor Is the Right - January 1855
January 1, 1855
The objections which are too often made to what is called Woman's Rights arise, I think, from considering the subject without that care and discrimination which its importance demands. When it is asked that woman should have the same right to vote, to employment, and to the acquirement of knowledge as her brother, the minds of people are startled, and they at once pronounce the thing impracticable and dangerous. And yet, when they come to examine the grounds upon which either one of these claims are based—separately and distinctly—when they […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Convention - Sept. 25, 1906
September 25, 1906
I believe I voice the thought of the delegates to this convention when I say we are glad to be here; we were glad to be invited to this goodly place. Years ago, this Association was wise enough to discover that your little city had some of the best and brightest women in the state; and so made one of them our President, and we knew that we had honored ourselves in the doing. Your local club has made our reception so cordial that we are in the finest humor […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage – Feb. 21, 1894
February 21, 1894
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: As we were coming along the corridors of the Capitol on our way to this hearing I overheard a gentleman who, I think, is a member of Congress, say: “We shall have to let the women vote. This is what we are coming to.” I suppose he meant that this perpetual procession of women through the halls of the Capitol will go on until their efforts are crowned with success. That gentleman was a true prophet. We will continue to come here until […]
Jane Addams
Speeches
Speech on Woman Suffrage – June 17, 1911
June 17, 1911
It is always very difficult for me to make a speech on woman suffrage. I always feel that it belongs to the last century rather than this. The men who foresaw that the Negroes would need the protection of the ballot ought to have given it to the women. The best of them, like Theodore Parker and Abraham Lincoln, were concerned when they saw women going into industry without it. The eighteenth century was a century of big theories and much discussion about them. Today things have changed. Now we […]
Belva Lockwood
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage – March 3, 1908
March 3, 1908
Gentlemen, you compose a committee, the last of 71 on the list, appointed and selected to discuss, consider, and report the matters referred to you, pertaining to the subject and object of your committee, “woman suffrage,” which you are supposed by your appointment not only to favor but thoroughly understand; a question that has been agitated before the country, and before the honorable body which you have the honor to represent, for the last half a century, and a question involving, according to the last United States Census, the welfare […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage – Jan. 24, 1889
January 24, 1889
Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee, I suppose Miss Anthony has introduced me that I may vouch for the orthodoxy of the body that has been gathered together here. We are orthodox on the woman suffrage question, and although they do not all agree with me on matters of faith in religion, they do agree with me on matters of faith in government. We have no apology to offer for being here. We have come to the conclusion that if women are to be free they must strike the […]