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by James Daley
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ISBN: 0486461416 Dover Publications Price: $3.50 |
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From civil rights to the right to vote, women have spoken out — with great power and eloquence — throughout the annals of American history. Here are 21 legendary speeches from the country's most inspirational female voices, including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.
Table of Contents for Great Speeches by American Women
| Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman? (1851)Lucretia Mott, Why Should Not Women Seek to Be a Reformer? (1854)Susan B. Anthony, On Behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment (1880)Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self (1892)Ida Wells-Barnett, Southern Horror: Lynch Law in all its Phases (1892)Lucy Stone, The Progress of Fifty Years (1893)Jane Addams, A Modern Lear (1896)Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Appeal to the Cause of Miners in the Paint Creek District (1912)Emma Goldman, Address to the Jury (1917)Margaret Sanger, A Moral Necessity for Birth Control (1921)Mary McLeod Bethune, A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)Eleanor Roosevelt, On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience (1950)Shirley Chisholm, People and Peace, Not Profits and War (1969)Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address (1984)Ann Richards, Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1988)Mary Fisher, A Whisper of AIDS (1992)Gloria Steinem, A 21st Century Feminism (2002)Jane Fonda, The New Feminism (2004)Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks on the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (2006)Nancy Pelosi, Speech Upon Her Election as Speaker of the House (2007) |