American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Female Orators

"I, Barbara Jordan, am a keynote speaker." -- Barbara Charline Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention

Rank	Speaker	Title/Text/MultiMedia	Audio	Transcript
5	Barbara Charline Jordan	1976 DNC Keynote Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
13	Barbara Charline Jordan	Statement on the Articles of Impeachment	mp3	PDF FLASH
27	Anna Howard Shaw	"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"		PDF FLASH
35	Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton	"Women's Rights are Human Rights"	mp3	PDF FLASH
38	Dorothy Ann Willis Richards	1988 DNC Keynote Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
41	Margaret Chase Smith	"Declaration of Conscience"		PDF FLASH
44	Mary Church Terrell	"What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."		PDF FLASH
46	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"The Morality of Birth Control"		PDF FLASH
47	Barbara Pierce Bush	1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
52	Mary Fisher	"A Whisper of AIDS"	mp3	PDF FLASH
57	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	"The Struggle for Human Rights"		PDF FLASH
58	Geraldine Anne Ferraro	Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech	mp3	PDF FLASH
67	Emma Goldman	Address to the Jury		PDF FLASH
68	Carrie Chapman Catt	"The Crisis"		PDF FLASH
71	Anita Faye Hill	Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee	mp3	PDF FLASH
75	Carrie Chapman Catt	Address to the U.S. Congress		PDF FLASH
81	Elizabeth Glaser	1992 DNC Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
83	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"The Children's Era"
84	Ursula Kroeber Le Guin	"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"		PDF FLASH
85	Crystal Eastman	"Now We Can Begin"
89	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	Statement at the Smith Act Trial		PDF FLASH
93	Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm	"For the Equal Rights Amendment"		PDF FLASH
100	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights	mp3	PDF FLASH

Audio Speech #58 courtesy of Vincent Voice Library

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