Mary McLeod Bethune

What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? New York, N.Y., Nov. 23, 1939http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html

Barbara Bush

Commencement Address: Choices and Change Wellesley College, Mass., June 1, 1990

Carrie Chapman Catt

The Crisis Atlantic City, N.J., 1916

Shirley Chisholm

Equal Rights For Women Washington, DC, May 21, 1969

Mary Church Terrell

What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States Washington, DC, Oct. 10, 1906

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights; UN Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing, China, Sept. 5, 1995

Geraldine Ferraro

Speech accepting the Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination San Francisco, Calif., July 19, 1984

Mary Fisher

Address to the Republican National Convention: A Whisper of AIDS Houston, Tex., Aug. 19, 1992

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury New York, N.Y., July 9, 1917

Fannie Lou Hamer

Democratic National Convention Speech Atlantic City, N.J., July 22, 1964

Mother Jones

Labor Speech to Coal Miners Charlestown, West Virginia, Aug. 15, 1912

Barbara Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee Washington, DC, July 25, 1974 Speech at the Democratic National Convention New York, N.Y., July 12, 1976

Helen Keller

Strike Against War New York, N.Y., Jan. 5, 1916

Florence Kelley

On Child Labor and Women’s Suffrage Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1905

Ursula LeGuin

A Left-Handed Commencement Address Mills College, Mills College, Oakland, Calif., 1983 http://gos.sbc.edu/l/leguin.html

Lucretia Mott

Discourse On Woman Philadelphia, Pa., December 17, 1849

Ann Richards

Democratic National Convention Address Atlanta, Ga., July 18, 1988

Eleanor Roosevelt

Speech on civil liberties to the members of the ACLU Chicago, Ill., Mar. 14, 1940 The Struggle for Human Rights Paris, France; Sept 28, 1948

Anna Howard Shaw

The Fundamental Principle of a Republic Ogdenburg, N.Y., June 21, 1915

Margaret Chase Smith

Declaration of Conscience Washington, DC, June 1, 1950

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Solitude of Self U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Jan. 18, 1892 Declaration of Sentiments Seneca Falls, New York, 1848

Lucy Stone

The Progress of Fifty Years World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Sojourner Truth

Ain’t I a Woman? Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

Ida B. Wells

NAACP Speech Against Lynching Baltimore, Md., Feb. 12, 1909

Sheila Widnall

Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering S.E. Regional NAE Meeting GA Tech, April 26, 2000

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