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Anne Dallas Dudley
Speeches
The Southern Temperament as Related to Woman Suffrage - Sept. 8, 1916
September 8, 1916
This address was delivered at the "Dixie Night" session of the National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1916. The awakening of Southern women to this great world question has been slow, because in order to grip the Southern heart a cause must have its glamour. That, you see, is our trouble—too much heart. The only business a Southern girl is ever taught or is born with a knowledge of is the business of hearts—the way to win them, the way to hold them, sometimes the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Equal Suffrage – Aug. 3, 1916
August 3, 1916
Catt's speech in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as reported in The Daily Telegram on August 4, 1916. My good friends, men and women of West Virginia: There is no power on earth that can prevent the coming of woman suffrage. One might just as well put his little weak hand against the tide of Niagara in the hope that he might keep it back as to try to stay the coming of this great cause of human liberty. It is as certain as the sun is sure to rise. When the […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage – Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in closing what we women have to say to you this morning in our own behalf, I am not going to make an argument, but to recall to your minds again, as Miss Anthony did in the beginning, that for thirty-two years we have been coming before your honorable body asking that your committee shall report to the honorable Senate of the United States a bill for a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution. Miss Anthony gave you the reasons why we want our […]
Ida Husted Harper
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 and members of the committee: Since the representatives of the National Woman Suffrage Association last appeared before this committee, two years ago, two nations of Europe have conferred the complete franchise on their women and one has practically granted municipal suffrage. Finland in 1906 enfranchised all women on exactly the same terms as men and made them eligible to all offices including the parliamentary. This measure was the result of great deliberation and careful procedure, decided upon by a carefully selected commission, passed by all the four chambers of […]
Lucy Stone
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 18, 1892
January 18, 1892
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I arrived in town only last night and did not even know of a hearing here to-day, so I have not any speech prepared. Nevertheless I am glad to be here, and I am glad to see this committee, and—I suppose I have the right to say it—I am glad to see you are the kind of looking men I see before me. It is something on our side to have you be the men you seem to be. I come before this […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage - April 26, 1913
April 26, 1913
In a very remarkable article written recently by that distinguished Democrat, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, in speaking of the founders of this Nation, he said: On the one hand were the Democratic Republicans, who believe both in the letter and in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, who were convinced that a new order of things was both advisable and advantageous; that the old established systems of government by a superior class were failures, and that government by all the people was not only the most just and righteous, […]
Leonora O’Reilly
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement to the Joint Committee of the Committee on Woman Suffrage and the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate - March 13, 1912
March 13, 1912
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: Yes; I have outdone the lady who went to work at 18 by five years. I have been a wage earner since I was a little over 13. I, too, know whereof I speak; that is the reason I do not want to play a bluff game with you any longer. You can not, or will not make laws for us; we must make laws for ourselves. We working women need the ballot for self-protection; that is all there is to it. We […]
Virginia Minor
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage - Jan. 24, 1889
January 24, 1889
Minor's remarks included a statement prepared by her husband, Francis Minor, who pleaded her case before the Supreme Court in 1875. Gentlemen, in 1884 the chairman of your committee (Mr. Cockrell) declared "that suffrage belonged entirely to the States so long as no class of citizens were disfranchised." I hold that women are a class of citizens in the different States who are disfranchised. But I am happy to say the Senator must have changed his opinion on that subject, because I notice that he has voted in Congress to […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment, Chapter VI: Objections to the Federal Amendment - Jan. 1917
January 1, 1917
This chapter written by Catt appeared in the book "Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment" (1917), a collection of essays that focuses on the various arguments for and against woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment rather than by individual states. In this chapter, Catt uses population statistics to argue for universal suffrage. I. STATES RIGHTS. This objection is Urged by ALL Opponents of Woman Suffrage, but is Either a Barricade to Defend Themselves from the Necessity of Exposing the Fact That They Have no Reasons, or is a Play to Postpone […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
Speeches
Woman Suffrage. Which Way? - Nov. 1913
November 1, 1913
Gardener gave this speech in November 1913 at the inaugural meeting of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference. The title "Woman Suffrage, Which Way?" refers to state-by-state or federal amendment. It was later reprinted as a NAWSA pamphlet. The time is past when there is any question as to whether or not we are to have woman suffrage. Already in eleven of our States and in twenty-eight countries it is in operation. The question before us now is, Which way do we prefer to have it come—State by State, as […]