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Speaking while female: 75 extraordinary speeches by American women
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From the Book
Hersey trial / Anne Hutchinson
Vote and voyce / Margaret Brent
A peace treaty / Nanye'hi
Salutory oration / Priscilla Mason
Life as a Revolutionary War soldier / Deborah Sampson Gannett
Improving female education / Emma Willard
New-harmony hall / Frances Wright
Farewell address to her friends in the city of Boston / Maria Miller Stewart
At Pennsylvania hall / Angelina Grimke
Discourse on woman / Lucretia Mott
Ain't I a woman? : I am a woman's rights / Sojourner Truth
Rather die than go back / Jane Johnson
Disappointment is the lot of a woman / Lucy Stone
Woman's rights in a new aspect / Julia Branch
Why slavery is still rampant in the land / Sarah Parker Remond
Why colored men should enlist / Anna Dickinson
Testimony on Civil War prison conditions / Clara Barton
We are all bound up together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Memphis riots and massacres / Frances Thompson
Is it a crime for a US citizen to vote? / Susan B. Anthony
The need of women in science / Maria Mitchell
Plight of the Ponca Indians / Susette La Flesche
Testimony on Indian affairs / Sarah Winnemucca
Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lynch law in all its phases / Ida B. Wells
The rights of my people / Ka'iulani
Woman's cause is one and universal / Anna Julia Cooper
Public defender rights of persons accused of crime / Clara Shortridge Foltz
Crowded districts of large cities / Lillian Wald
The chain-gang system / Selena Sloan Butler
Is God responsible? / Caroline Bartlett Crane
How the sisters are hindered from helping / Nannie Helen Burroughs
Effect of the hatchet / Carrie Nation
Dance of the future / Isadora Duncan
Agitation : the greatest factor for progress / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell
Plea for the Spanish language / Aurora Lucero-White Lea
To the victims of the triangle shirtwaist fire / Rose Schneiderman
What feminism means to me / Crystal Eastman
China's submerged half / Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Appeal to the women voters of the west / Inez Milholland
On women's rights and wartime service / Jeannette Rankin
Address to President Calvin Coolidge
Gagged for free speech / Margaret Sanger
Eyes of the blind / Helen Keller
Can the machine pull us out? / Lillian Gilbreth
Modern coup d'etat / Dorothy Thompson
Civil liberties : the individual and the community / Eleanor Roosevelt
America and the Kremlin / Clare Boothe Luce
My democratic credo / Helen Gahagan Douglas
Katharine Hepburn / Silence the artist
Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith
Home-coming day / Josephine Baker
The right way is not a moderate way / Lillian Smith
Of man and the stream of time / Rachel Carson
The Negro woman in the quest for equity / Pauli Murray
The Nation needs your gifts / Lorraine Hansberry
I question America / Fannie Lou Hamer
Speech at capitol rally / Dolores Huerta
Introducing the E.R.A / Shirley Chisholm
Do not refuse us / Martha J. Sara
Frewell speech to NOW / Betty Friedan
Living the revolution / Gloria Steinem
Discrimination against women / Patsy Mink
I am someone's neighbor / Madeline Davis
Opening statement on the articles of impeachment of president Richard Nixon / Barbara Jordan
Wartime internement / Grayce Uyehara
Becoming disabled / Judy Heumann
Portia's progress / Sandra Day O'Connor
A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher
Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Clinton
Animals in translation / Temple Grandin
House built by slaves / Michelle Obama
Time's up / Oprah Winfrey
Summon courage / Bina Venkataraman.
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Contributors
Rubin, Dana compiler, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary
ISBN
9781637550304
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