25 Notable Speeches and Addresses By U.S. Women. 1849-1995

Discourse On Woman

Lucretia Mott (Philadelphia, Pa., December 17, 1849)

Ain't I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth (Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851)

On Women's Right to Vote

Susan B. Anthony (Monroe County, N.Y., 1873)

The Solitude of Self

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 1892

The Progress of Fifty Years

Lucy Stone (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893)

Mob Murder in a Christian Nation — NAACP Speech Against Lynching

Ida B. Wells (Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 12, 1909)

On Child Labor and Women's Suffrage

Florence Kelley (Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1905)

What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States

Mary Church Terrell (Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 1906)

Labor Speech to Coal Miners

Mother Jones (Charlestown, West Virginia, Aug. 15, 1912)

The Fundamental Principle of a Republic

Anna Howard Shaw (Ogdenburg, N.Y., June 21, 1915)

The Crisis

Carrie Chapman Catt (Atlantic City, N.J., 1916)

Strike Against War

Helen Keller (New York, N.Y., Jan. 5, 1916)

Address to the Jury

Emma Goldman (New York, N.Y., July 9, 1917)

The Morality of Birth Control

Margaret Sanger (Park Theatre, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1921)

Speech on civil liberties to the members of the ACLU

Eleanor Roosevelt (Chicago, Ill., Mar. 14, 1940)

The Struggle for Human Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt (Paris, France; Sept 28, 1948)

Declaration of Conscience

Margaret Chase Smith (Washington, DC,June 1, 1950)

Democratic National Convention Speech

Fanny Lou Hamer (Atlantic City, N.J., July 22, 1964)

Equal Rights For Women

Shirley Chisholm (Washington, DC, May 21, 1969)

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee

Barbara Jordan (Washington, DC, July 25, 1974)

Speech at the Democratic National Convention

Barbara Jordan (New York, N.Y. , July 12, 1976)

Speech accepting the Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination

Geraldine Ferraro (San Francisco, Calif., July 19, 1984)

Democratic National Convention Address

Ann Richards (Atlanta, Ga., July 18, 1988)

Commencement Address: Choices and Change

Barbara Bush (Wellesley College, Mass., June 1, 1990)

Opening Statement: Sexual Harrassment Hearings

Anita Hill (Washington, DC, Oct. 11, 1991)

Address to the Republican National Convention: A Whisper of AIDS

Mary Fisher (Houston, Tex., Aug. 19, 1992)

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

Hillary Rodham Clinton (UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, Sept. 5, 1995)