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

Rank Speaker Title/Text Audio Duration
5

Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address

   
13

Barbara Charline Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

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27 Anna Howard Shaw "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"  

 

35

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

"Women's Rights are Human Rights"

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Entire
38

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

1988 DNC Keynote Address

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41

Margaret Chase Smith

"Declaration of Conscience"

 

 

44

Mary Church Terrell

"What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."

 

 

46

Margaret Higgins Sanger

"The Morality of Birth Control"

 

 

47

Barbara Pierce Bush

1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address

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52

Mary Fisher

"A Whisper of AIDS"

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57

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Struggle for Human Rights"

 

 

58

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech

   
67

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury

 

 

68

Carrie Chapman Catt

"The Crisis"

 

 

71 Anita Faye Hill

Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee

   
75

Carrie  Chapman Catt

Address to the U.S. Congress

 

 

81

Elizabeth Glaser

1992 DNC Address

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83 Margaret Higgins Sanger "The Children's Era"  

 

84 Ursula Le Guin "A Left-Handed Commencement Address"  

 

85

Crystal Eastman

"Now We Can Begin"

 

 

89

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Statement at the Smith Act Trial

 

 

93 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm "For the Equal Rights Amendment"  

 

100

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

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Audio Speech  #58 courtesy of  Vincent Voice Library

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