Congressional Address and Debate – June 12, 1918
Opening statement Miss Rankin: Mr. Chairman, I offer the following ammendment. The Clerk read as follows: Pag 19, line s, after the word "assistants," strike out the figures "$1,781,600" and insert...
View ArticleIt is Time to Reassess Our National Priorities – March 26, 1969
I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, on the same Day President Nixon announced he had decided the United States will not be safe unless we start to build a defense system against missiles, the Headstart...
View ArticleCommencement Address at Westbrook Junior College – June 15, 1983
You young women are on the threshold of the finest years of your life. Make the best of those years, not only for yourselves but for your families, your friends, and your country as well. Make better...
View Article“Until They Have the Power”, Suffrage Day Speech – May 13, 1914
This is one of the grandest days that ever happened for women. All over the country women are asking for the vote and you know that what a woman asks for she usually gets. And we should have the...
View Article“A Philosophy of Education for Negro Girls”– 1920
For the past seventy years the Negro has experienced various degrees of freedom. That which was given him in the early years of emancipation was more genuine and perhaps more benign that than which...
View ArticleRemarks on Pearl Harbor – Dec. 8, 1942
JEANNETTE RANKIN: Mr. Speaker, we have been at war a year. During that time the American people have had abundant opportunity to take stock of the Nation’s situation and to raise a large number of...
View Article“Woman Suffrage”– Jan. 10, 1918
Mr. Speaker, we are facing today a question of political evolution. International circumstances have forced this question to an issue. Our country is in a state of war. The Nation has had a terrible...
View ArticleAnnouncing Retirement from the U.S. Senate – March 5, 2024
In 2017, I warned we were approaching a crossroads. Our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. I promised I would do my best...
View ArticleCaucus Night Remarks – Jan. 15, 2024
You can’t do it unless you have a faith and God is so good. I want to say to my husband who is deployed, who I know may or may not be watching this right now. Michael, I love you. And what keeps me...
View ArticleSpeech at Woodbury School’s Veterans Day Program – Nov. 3, 2023
Well, Principal, I really appreciate being here and I love the new gym. So congratulations to everyone from Salem, Superintendent Palmer, all your hard work. This is a beautiful facility. And it's...
View Article“Rooted Here”, August 2, 1859
. . . of a man who sowed onions and garlic on his land to increase his dairy productions; but he soon found the butter was strong and would not sell, and so he concluded to sow clover instead. But he...
View ArticleSpeech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972
It's really a wonderful feeling to be back among the people. [applause, cheers] To be back among all of you who fought so long and so hard, among all of you who actually achieved my freedom. And I...
View ArticleCommencement Address at University at Albany – May 14, 2022
Good morning graduates, are we fired up today or what? Oh, I can feel the energy. What an exciting day for you. And first of all, to your parents, you can finally put away the checkbooks, the money is...
View ArticleA Left-Handed Commencement Address – May 22, 1983
I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women. I know there are men graduating, and I don’t mean to exclude them, far...
View ArticleRemarks on the Value of Diversity – July 17, 2009
Excerpt of Justice Ginsburg's keynote speech at the 2009 graduation ceremony at Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies). Members of the faculty, graduating students and their families, and...
View ArticleWe Should All Be Feminists – April 12, 2013
My brother, Chuks, and my best friend, Ike, are part of the organizing team, so when they ask me to come, I couldn't say no. But I'm so happy to be here. What a fantastic team of people who care about...
View ArticleThe Journey Continues: A Time for Hope and National Unity – Jan. 5, 2012
Your Excellency Sir Patrick Allen, our governor-general, and Lady Allen Leader of the Opposition and former prime minister, the honourable Andrew Holness and Mrs. Holness Former governor-general, most...
View ArticleInterview with Janet Silvera – March 8, 2017
Simpson Miller gave this interview with Janet Silvera of The Gleaner just before her retirement from the Jamaican Parliament. SILVERA: Mrs. Simpson Miller, you have had quite a journey on the road of...
View ArticleAddress to the Special Delegates Conference – March 26, 2017
Comrade PJ Patterson Comrade Chairman Comrade Peter Phillips Comrade Vice Presidents Comrade General Secretary and Deputy General Secretaries Other Officers of the Party Delegates Members and...
View ArticleEmancipation Day Message – Aug. 1, 2015
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. My fellow Jamaicans: Today we celebrate One Hundred and Eighty One years of Emancipation. We celebrate today the struggle of...
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