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Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Presidential Address at the 6th IWSA Convention: Is Woman Suffrage Progressing? - June 13, 1911
June 13, 1911
Presidential address by Catt to the Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Published by the International Woman Suffrage Association. In the debate upon the Woman Suffrage Bill in the Swedish Parliament, a few weeks ago, a University Professor said, in a tone of eloquent finality: "The Woman Suffrage movement has reached and passed its climax; the suffrage wave is now rapidly receding." To those who heard the tone of voice and saw the manner with which he spoke, there was no room for doubt that he believed what […]
Virginia Minor
Speeches
Opening Address at the Missouri Woman Suffrage Convention - Oct. 6,1869
October 6, 1869
I believe that the Constitution of the United States gives me every right and privilege to which every other citizen is entitled; for while the Constitution gives the States the right to regulate suffrage, it nowhere gives them power to prevent it. The power to regulate is one thing, the power to prevent is an entirely different thing. Thus the State can say where, when and what citizens may exercise the right of suffrage. If she can say that a woman, who is a citizen of the United States shall […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speeches
The Ethics of Suffrage - May, 1893
May 20, 1893
Stanton submitted several written speeches, including this one, to be read for her at the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. The basic idea of the republic is the right of self-government ; the right of every citizen to choose his own representatives and to make the laws under which he lives ; and as this right can be secured only by the exercise of the right of suffrage, the ballot in the hands of every qualified person indicates his true political status as […]
Susan B. Anthony
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, U.S. Senate - March 7, 1884
March 7, 1884
Miss ANTHONY. I wish I could state the avocations and professions of the various women who have spoken in our convention during the last three days. I do not wish to speak disparagingly in regard to the men in Congress, but I doubt if a man on the floor of either House could have made a better speech than some of those which have been made by women during this convention. Twenty-six States and Territories are represented with live women, traveling all the way from Kansas, Arkansas, Oregon, and Washington […]
Jeannette Rankin
Speeches
"Until They Have the Power", Suffrage Day Speech - May 13, 1914
May 13, 1914
This is one of the grandest days that ever happened for women. All over the country women are asking for the vote and you know that what a woman asks for she usually gets. And we should have the ballot. We are a force in life, a factor which must be considered in all problems. You know that when you are working a problem in mathematics you must take account of every factor if you are to get the right answer. So it is with government; unless you take account […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Woman Suffrage - March 13, 1912
March 13, 1912
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in presenting our arguments for your consideration in regard to these amendments to the Constitution, we would like first to draw your attention to the fact that women have suffrage already, to a very large extent, in the United States. More than a million women will be eligible to vote for President of the United States next November. More than half a million in addition have the municipal franchise. ln fact, the remaining women of America are almost the only English speaking women […]
Isabella Beecher Hooker
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
Gentlemen of the committee, Miss Anthony says that I have a thought to present to you. I have two thoughts, and the first is this: women of this country have been deprived of the right of trial by jury simply because they have no vote. This was exemplified in the case of Miss Anthony in 1873, when Judge Ward Hunt, of the supreme bench, took the case from the jury, allowed them no consultation in their seats or out of them, and directed the clerk to enter up a verdict […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Woman Suffrage and the Bible - 1890
January 1, 1890
The Bible and Woman Suffrage Text: Cor. I 9-27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preached to others it should become a cast away. The Christian believes the Bible to be the revealed Word of God, and as such, he accepts it as his guide through life. It is natural, that he not only should seek consolation from its pages in every time of need, but that he should also search within it, for the solution of […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Convention - Nov. 18, 1896
November 18, 1896
Mrs. President, members of the Convention and citizens of Independence. When some of the good people of your city said to the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, "Come to us with your Convention," then the recording angel wrote it down in his book that the people of Independence were a long way from mound builders. We are glad to have the opportunity to come to your beautiful city. We chanced to read the other day that the dwelling places of the great peoples of the world cluster about a certain parallel […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Fifth Conference and First Quinquennial - April 26, 1909
April 26, 1909
(Stenographic Report.) On a June day, in 1904, the delegated representatives of seven National Woman Suffrage Associations met in a little hall in Berlin. They were there to discuss the practicability of completing a proposed International Union. At that date there were in all the world only ten countries in which Woman Suffrage Organisations could be found. Those of you who were present will well remember the doubt and the misgivings which characterised our deliberations. The doubting delegates questioned whether the times were yet ripe for this radical step; already […]