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Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Women Suffrage and the 15th Amendment - 1915
January 1, 1915
Terrell's remarks from "Votes for Women: A Symposium by Leading Thinkers of Colored Women" held in Washington, D.C., as published in the August 1915 issue of The Crisis. Terrell was honorary president of the National Association of Colored Women. Even if I believed that women should be denied the right of suffrage, wild horses could not drag such an admission from my pen or my lips, for this reason : precisely the same arguments used to prove that the ballot be withheld from women are advanced to prove that colored […]
Jeannette Rankin
Speeches
"Woman Suffrage" - Jan. 10, 1918
January 10, 1918
Mr. Speaker, we are facing today a question of political evolution. International circumstances have forced this question to an issue. Our country is in a state of war. The Nation has had a terrible shock. The result has been a sudden change in our national consciousness. The things we have for years been taking for granted are suddenly assuming a new significance for us. We as a Nation were born in a land of unparalleled resources, of vast acreage of fertile soil, of minerals, of coal, oil, gas, of timber, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Woman's Centennial Congress - 25 November, 1940
November 25, 1940
This work is split into three parts: the preface and introduction are a separate piece of writing, most likely written after the Women’s Centennial Congress and meant for possible publication. The third part is the speech itself from 1940. Woman’s Centennial Congress Preface The Woman’s Centennial Congress has just been held in New York, November 25, 26, 27, 1940. It was held to memorialize the end of the Woman’s Century, 1840-1940. One hundred years ago, eight disappointed women, refused seats in the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention at London because they were […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Then and Now - Jan. 9, 1939
January 9, 1939
This speech was delivered by Catt at the celebration of her eightieth birthday, held at the Hotel Astor in New York City and sponsored by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission in cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. In a neat little house in the quiet town of Ripon, Wisconsin there lived a family named Lane in 1859. There, at 2 o'clock in the morning of January 9th, a new baby arrived, looking and acting like a million other babies born on the same day. […]
Isabella Beecher Hooker
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Remarks Before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives - Jan. 11, 1871
January 11, 1871
Hooker's address was given in the same hearing as the one by Victoria Woodhull that was the first address by a woman to a U.S. House committee. Hooker's remarks were in reply to a suggestion of the committee as to the propriety of a greater restriction rather than enlargement of the right of suffrage. We are told by men themselves that there are too many voters already; restriction is what we want, not enlargement of the suffrage. Let us see how this is, my friends; let us reason together on […]
Victoria C Woodhull
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Address to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives – Jan. 11, 1871
January 11, 1871
With this address, Woodhull became the first woman to address a U.S. House committee. To the Honorable the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States : Having most respectfully memorialized Congress for the passage of such laws as in its wisdom shall seem necessary and proper to carry into effect the rights vested by the Constitution of the United States in the citizens to vote, without regard to sex, I beg leave to submit to your honorable body the following in favor of […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Response to Addresses at the Fifth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War - January 1930
January 1, 1930
RESPONSE Carrie Chapman Catt We have listened with understanding and sympathy to the words of these women from foreign countries, the unspeakable tragedies of the European nations and the threatened peril of the lands within the Western Hemisphere. The unspoken question, to which we must find an answer, is what are we going to do about it? Sympathetic words are not enough. Food to the hungry and clothes to the cold who have been robbed of every hope life offers are not enough. Even the utmost assistance, short of war, […]
Marianne Williamson
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Iowa State Fair Political Soapbox - Aug. 9, 2019
August 9, 2019
This is an extraordinary experience. And I’m very aware, particularly as a woman, that we can’t do this everywhere. I’m very aware particularly as a woman that if I said a fraction of the things that I sometimes say in critique of our government and our governmental policy, that there are countries were I might be taken off to prison, even tortured. So I’m not only very aware of the profound right that we have to say what we think, but at this point in our history I think we […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
The Indifference of Women - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Blackwell gave this speech at a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is often said that the chief obstacle to equal suffrage is the indifference and opposition of women, and that whenever the majority of women ask for the ballot they will get it. But it is a simple historical fact that every improvement thus far made in the condition of women has been secured, not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and “continual […]
Charlotte B Nelson
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
Governor Branstad, Lt. Governor Reynolds, Chairperson Olsen, Committee Chair Peters, Honorees seated in front, and Honorees on the stage. A little Commission history: Pat Geadelmann was chair when I began; she and subsequent chairs, and commission members, have been great to work with. On the committee that proposed my name to the Governor in 1985 was Eunice Kuyper Folkerts. Eunie envisioned the Friends of the Commission, and Michelle Durand-Adams built on that vision. All are here today. Also on that committee was Mary Wiberg, now Executive Director of the California […]