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Helen Hamilton Gardener
Speeches
Woman as an Annex - May 18, 1893
May 18, 1893
This speech was read before the World's Congress of Representative Women in Chicago on May 18, 1893. It was reprinted in Gardener's book "Fact and Fictions of Life." Ladies and Gentlemen:—If it were not often tragic and always humiliating, it would be exceedingly amusing to observe the results of a method of thought and a civilization which has proceeded always upon the idea that man is the race and that woman is merely an annex to him and because of his desires, needs and dictum. Strangely enough, the bigotry or […]
Tammy S Baldwin
Speeches
Remarks at Fighting Bob Fest 2005 - Sept. 10, 2005
September 10, 2005
Thank you Spencer. Thank you fellow Wisconsinites! Thank you fellow sons and daughters of Bob and Belle Case La Follette, of Aldo Leopold, of Gaylord Nelson. Thank you fellow progressives! Fighting Bob Fest is our rallying point and this is our rallying cry: Progressives of the world, unite! It's time to lay aside our petty differences and solve the problems around us. It's time to come together in common purpose—with common sense and decency—for the common good. It's time to articulate what we stand for, not only rail about what […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
The Racial Worm Turns - Ca. 1920
January 1, 1920
[hw] means handwritten Written by Mary Church Terrell 1615 S St., N.W. Washington, D.C. [ca. 1920] The Racial Worm Turns. The colored people of the United States are more restless, dissatisfied and unhappy to day than they have been since they were bound head, hand and foot as slaves. And they are growing more discontented with their status in this country every day. The reason is not far to seek. They staked all their hopes of bettering their condition upon the outcome of the world War and they feel that […]
Victoria C Woodhull
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
And The Truth Shall Make You Free - Nov. 20, 1871
November 20, 1871
This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights associations. It was delivered in Steinway Hall. THE PRESENT CRISIS. When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breastRuns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from East to West,And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climbTo the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublimeOf a century bursts full-blossomed on […]
Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
The Total Woman: Baccalaureate Address at Radcliffe College - June 9, 1964
June 9, 1964
It is four years since that anxiously-awaited envelope postmarked "Cambridge, Massachusetts" arrived in your home. This day marks the culmination of those years. You have struggled, groaned and grown within the demanding and rigorous intellectual life of this remarkable institution, and here you are today—ready to turn your knowledge and skills to new fields. But with all your perception, with all your brainpower, I wonder if you know how great is the pride in you of those who are in this hall today? What can I say to make you […]
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. […]
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 […]
Lucy Stone
Speeches
The Progress of Fifty Years - May 1893
May 1, 1893
The commencement of the last fifty years is about the beginning of that great change and improvement in the condition of women which exceeds all the gains of hundreds of years before. Four years in advance of the last fifty, in 1833, Oberlin College, in Ohio, was founded. Its charter declared its grand object, - "To give the most useful education at the least expense of health, time, and money, and to extend the benefits of such education to both sexes and to all classes; and the elevation of the […]
Janet Jagan
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Sharing the Vision for our Times - March 27, 1999
March 27, 1999
Pres. Jagan gave the inaugural address of the Cheddi Jagan Lecture Series at York University. On Monday last, I had the honor to open a Ministerial Meeting of Caricom and Central America which was held in Georgetown. The meeting was one of great significance to me, and for that matter, for the people of our hemisphere. It was of particular significance to me since it was a major event taking place on the 81st birth anniversary of the late President of Guyana, Cheddi Jagan. It was a meeting Dr. Jagan […]
Rebecca L Felton
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
To the Senate - Nov. 11, 1922
November 22, 1922
To the Senate1 Mr. President, in my very remarkable campaign in Georgia, which, contrary to precedent, all came along after I was selected, one of the very amusing things that came to me by mail was a cartoon from San Antonio, Texas. The cartoon represented the United States Senate in session. The seats seemed to be fully occupied, and there appeared in the picture the figure of a woman who had evidently entered without sending in her card. The gentlemen in the Senate took the situation variously. Some seemed to […]