women's rights speech transcript

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. However different we may appear, there is far more that unites us than divides us. In every country and clime does man assume the responsibility of marking out the path for her to tread,-in every country does he regard her as a being inferior to himself and one whom he is to guide and controul. I have met women in India and Bangladesh who are taking out small loans to buy milk cows, or rickshaws, or thread, in order to create a livelihood for themselves and their families. In carrying out his own selfishness, man has greatly improved womans moral nature, but by an almost total shipwreck of his own. But so far as we can observe it is pretty much now-a-days as it was with Adam of old. Gods blessings on you, your work, and all who will benefit from it. These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. 3 0 obj In the Turkish Harem where woman is little above the brute of the field, where immortal mind is crushed and the soul itself is as it were blotted out, where beings God has endowed with a spirit capable of enjoying the beauties which he has scattered over the broad earth-a spirit whose cultivation would fit them for a never ending existence, in those Seraglios where intellect and soul are buried beneath the sensualism and brutality which are the inevitable result of the belief in womans inferiority, even here she is not only satisfied with her position but glories in it. Then he says by way of an excuse for his degradation, God made woman more self denying than us, it is her nature, it does not cost her as much to give up her wishes, her will, her life even as it does us. Oh! Vengeance is mine and I will repay saith the Lord- Let frail man, who cannot foresee the consequences of an action walk humbly with his God-loving his enemies, blessing those who curse him and always returning good for evil. Her wishes should she have any must be in subjection to those of her tyrant-her will must be in perfect subordination, the comfort of the wife, children, servants one and all must be given up wholly disregarded until the great head of the house be first attended to. Equality means that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is equal to the young intern at the UN who is dreaming about shaking his hand. So he promised her the knowledge of good and evil. Persist to ask and it will come, I have never heard that Daniel Lambert was distinguished for any great mental endowments. The question now is, how shall we get possession of what rightfully belongs to us. Challenges like these are made even more stark in times of crisis; and that, of course, includes education. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech to the Reunion of the Pioneers and Friends of Woman's Progress; November 12,1895. Woman has now the noble virtues of the martyr, she is early schooled to self denial and suffering. There the discussion will focus on local and highly successful programs that give hard-working women access to credit so they can improve their own lives and the lives of their families. Hillary Rodham Clinton: (08:57) CNN . Hillary Rodham Clinton: (06:14) Families rely on mothers and wives for emotional support and care. As the nations of the earth emerge from a state of barbarism, the sphere of woman gradually becomes wider but not even under what is thought to be the full blaze of the sun of civilization is it what God designed it to be. Now as the command is given to me, I am of course to be the judge of what is in the Lord and this opens a wide field of escape from any troublesome commands. It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes, by their own relatives. The right to equal pay. Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Those of us who have the opportunity to be here, have the responsibility to speak for those who could not. [25] One common objection to this movement is that if the principles of freedom and equality which we advocate were put to practise, it would destroy all harmony in the domestic circle. But it was a bloodless war. The right to fair, unbiased treatment. It means respecting the views of those who may disagree with the views of their governments. Hillary Rodham Clinton: (18:41) A RESTful API to access Revs workforce of fast, high quality transcriptionists and captioners. Two versions of the speech appear here. I have met new mothers in Indonesia who come together regularly in their village to discuss nutrition, family planning, and baby care. Throughout history, so many of the people to make us stop and take note with their famous speeches have been women. During Sojourner Truth 's famous 1851 speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she used the phrase "Ain't I a Woman?" four times to emphasize the need to fight for equal . It took 150 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence for women to win the right to vote. Women comprise more than half the worlds population, 70% of the worlds poor, and two thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. 1900-1940 And like many of you, as a woman, I take all of this personally. Her style was so popular and she had shown so intimate a knowledge of human nature that they hoped much from her influence. And old earth feels the tread of freedom once more. I have met with the leading women of my own hemisphere, who are working every day to promote literacy and better healthcare for children in their countries. [17] And strange as it may seem to many we then and there declared our right to vote according to the Declaration of the government under which we live. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the following address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, 25 years ago. When women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to . Depend upon it that places that by their impure atmosphere are rendered unfit for woman cannot but be dangerous to her sires and sons. John Quincy Adams was a small man of but little muscular power, yet we know he had more courage than all the northern dough faces of six feet high and well proportioned that ever represented us at our Capitol. Will you reverence that, that is of like nature with yourselves? Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. Persuasive Essay On Women's Suffrage. So shalt thou see what few have seen How seldom now is the Fathers pride gratified, his fond hopes realized in the budding genius of the son-the wife is degraded-made the mere creature of his caprice and now the foolish son is heaviness to his heart. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed, and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated. In 1995, Hillary Clinton's speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing marked a watershed moment for . Under the 1898 civil code, a couple must adopt "the surname of the husband or wife" at the time of marriage. His support of women's rights never wavered although in 1869 he publicly disagreed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Read More(1888) Frederick Douglass On Woman Suffrage It's the idea and the ambition behind it, because not all women have received the same rights I have. [30] It has happened more than once that in a great crisis of national affairs, woman has been appealed to for her aid. If we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families too. The concept wasn't new. A feminist, Emma Watson used her September 20, 2016, appearance at the U.N. to announce the publication of the first HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report. She compared it to then-first lady Hillary Clinton's groundbreaking "women's rights are human rights" speech before the United Nations in 1995. Two in the tangled business of the world ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, "ADDRESS ON WOMAN'S RIGHTS" (SEPTEMBER 1848) [1] Ladies and gentlemen, when invited some weeks ago to address you I proposed to a gentleman of this village to review our report of the Seneca Falls convention and give his objections to our Declaration, resolutions and proceedings to serve me as a text on which to . June 16, 2016 8:49 PM EDT. We know that mental power depends much more on the temperament than the size of the head or the size of the body. I have met with the leading women of my own hemisphere who are working every day to promote literacy and better health care for children in their countries. Some say our heads are less. I can see no glory in fighting with such weapons as guns and swords whilst man has in his possession the infinitely superior and more effective ones of righteousness and truth. Updated on February 10, 2020. Extend your content reach and maximize your engagement rates. Families rely on women for labor in the home. Women's rights activists in Japan held a small rally to renew their demand for the government to allow married couples to keep using different surnames. Even today there are those who are trying to silence our words. Site by, Shawn Parry-Giles, University of Maryland. In fact, statistically, very few have been. Then fear not thou to wind thy horn, "I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Yes, we must not give an inch lest you claim an ell, we cannot accord to man even this much and he has no right to claim it until the fact be fully demonstrated, until the physical education of the boy and the girl shall have been the same for many years. How often now we see young men carelessly throwing away the intellectual food their sisters crave. The people were gathered to protest, after Ms Higgins's story set off a debate about the treatment of women in Parliament House and across Australia. [14] The power of mind seems to be in no way connected with the size and strength of body. Teach her there is no sex in mind, that true happiness springs from duty accomplished and she will feel the desire to bathe her brow heated from the struggles of an earthly existence in the cool stream that flows fresh and sparkling from the Divine fountain. V ermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did not suspend his campaign Thursday, rather promising that his political "revolution" would soldier on to the Democratic party's . There yawns the sack and yonder rolls the sea, is like the hand and grows, With using. [12] The false ideas that prevail with regard to the purity necessary to constitute the perfect character in woman and that requisite for man have done an infinite deal of mischief in the world. What refined delicate woman at the polls, mingling in such scenes of violence and vulgarity-most certainly-where there is so much to be feared for the pure, the innocent, the noble, the mother surely should be there to watch and guard her sons, who must encounter such stormy dangerous scenes at the tender age of 21. I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl. It's also about attitudes and beliefs -- the belief that girls simply aren't worthy of an education; that women should have no role outside the home; that their bodies aren't their own, their minds don't really matter, and their voices simply shouldn't be heard. Bodily strength depends something on the power of will. There can be no subordination where the one to whom the command is given is allowed to sit in judgement on the character of the command. Women must enjoy the right to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure. The black feminism movement of the 1970s. The main issues that revolve around the ideas of women's rights are battling stereotypes . Sojourner Truth, an escaped slave, feminist activist and abolitionist, delivered this iconic speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. No matter what the case may be he must have his hot dinner. Of science and the secrets of the mind. It was the biggest march in our country's history and I delighted at every sign I saw quoting my 1995 speech that human rights are women . Two heads in counsel, two beside the hearth [23] Let me here notice one of the greatest humbugs of the day, which has long found for itself a most valuable tool in woman. [20] They are not the only class of beings who glory in their bondage. She leaves her books and studies just at the time a young man is entering thoroughly into his-then comes the cares and perplexities of married life. There can be no true dignity or independence where there is subordination, no happiness without freedom. 22nd January 2018. It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation. By using keywords like "listen", "voices", "silence", "say", "hear", "words . Her sphere being confined to her house and children, the burden generally being very unequally divided, she knows nothing beside and whatever yearning her spirit may have felt for a higher existence, whatever may have been the capacity she well knew she possessed for more elevated enjoyments-enjoyments which would not conflict with these but add new lustre to them-it is all buried beneath the weight that presses upon her. Who says so. Beat thee senseless to the ground, There is something painfully affecting in the self sacrifice and generosity of women who can neither read or write their own language with correctness going about begging money for the education of men. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well. Let us heed that call so we can create a world in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity, every boy and girl is loved and cared for equally, and every family has the hope of a strong and stable future. WOMEN TALKING Accepts the Oscar for Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Watch on. Yet with idiotic laugh we hug these monsters to our arms and rush on. In fact, Clinton's words, delivered at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, were a line in the sand. In the dark beset thee round, They are ignorant both of the character and the power of Zenobia. She was possessed of intellectual attainments very unusual in that age and was a liberal patron of literature and science. No! In all eastern countries she is a mere slave bought and sold at pleasure. Hillary Rodham Clinton: (11:20) It is conferences like this that compel governments and peoples everywhere to listen, look, and face the worlds most pressing problems. The same religious enthusiasm that nerved her to what she deemed her work now nerves us to ours, her work was prophesied of, ours too is the fulfilling of what has long since been foretold. Methinks I hear some say, surely you will not contend for equality here. The ERA, a product of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, was an amendment that if ratified would "erase all the laws that discriminated against women.". In living rooms and boardrooms. Now it is time to act on behalf of women everywhere. [10] 2nd Let us consider mans claims to superiority as a moral being. Read the full transcript of her speech remarks here. The right is ours, have it we must-use it we will. [4] Among the many important questions which have been brought before the public, there is none that more vitally affects the whole human family than that which is technically termed Womans rights. Transcripts & captions for a better media workflow. Far from it. Woman's Rights to the Suffrage. Now in such households as these there may be no open ruptures-they may seemingly glide on without a ripple upon the surface-the aggrieved may have patiently resigned themselves to suffer all things with christian fortitude-with stern philosophy-but can there be harmony or happiness there? Hillary Rodham Clinton: (07:59) From the women's suffrage movement in the 1800s and feminism's second wave in . We have seen peace prevail in most places for a half century. It was she who continued the constant friend and protector of Columbus during her life, although assailed on all sides yet she steadily and firmly rejected the advice of narrow-minded, timid counsellors and generously bestowed her patronage upon that heroic adventurer. Man cannot speak for us-because he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Among some of the Tarter tribes of the present day the women manage a horse, hurl a javelin, hunt wild animals, and fight an enemy as well as the men. If you claim the advantage of size merely, why it may be that under any course of training in ever so perfect a developement of the physique in woman, man might still be the larger of the two, tho we do not grant even this. The most widely quoted version of this famous speech appears first and is from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth . Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. Men bless their innocence are fond of representing themselves as beings of reason-of intellect-while women are mere creatures of the affections- There is a self conceit that makes the possesser infinitely happy and one would dislike to dispel the illusion, if it were possible to endure it. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage girl who became a global beacon for women's rights, delivered the following speech before the United . Albert Beveridge In doing so, she launched the HeForShe initiative, which aims to get men and boys to join the feminist fight for gender equality. Department of Communication Tomorrow I will attend a gathering of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. It needs but little attention to see how exceedingly limited that command of St Paul must be even if you give it all the weight which is usually claimed for it. It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. And when women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to abuse. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselves-the moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utterly fail. [1] Ladies and gentlemen, when invited some weeks ago to address you I proposed to a gentleman of this village to review our report of the Seneca Falls convention and give his objections to our Declaration, resolutions and proceedings to serve me as a text on which to found an address for this evening the gentleman did so, but his review was so laconic that there was the same difficulty in replying to it as we found in replying to a recent sermon preached at Seneca Falls-there was nothing of it. 1981-2000 The Croatian, and Wallachian women perform all the agricultural operations, (and we know what physical strength such labours require) in addition to their own domestic concerns; and it is no uncommon sight in our cities to see the German immigrant with his hands in his pockets, walking complacently by the side of his wife, whilst she is bending beneath the weight of some huge package or piece of furniture,-physically as well as intellectually it is use that produces growth and developement. In fact, statistically, very few have. 18:31 - Source: CNN. As an American, I want to speak for women in my own countrywomen who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who cant afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes. In that forum, we talked about ways that government officials, NGOs, and individual citizens are working to address the health problems of women and girls. I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools, safe neighborhoods, clean air, and clean airwaves; for older women, some of them widows, who find that after raising their families, their skills and life experiences are not valued in the marketplace; for women who are working all night as nurses, hotel clerks, or fast-food chefs so that they can be at home during the day with their children; and for women everywhere who simply dont have time to do everything they are called upon to do each and every day. 1961-1980 Hillary Clinton Womens Rights are Human Rights Speech at 1995 Womens Conference Beijing Transcript, Congressional Testimony & Hearing Transcripts. One version was published a month after the speech was given in the newspaper The Anti-Slavery Bugle by Rev. Speech Entitled "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth Delivered at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. Section 107, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Angela Davis' Powerful Speeches During Civil Rights Movement and Women's March. Thank you very much, Gertrude Mongella, for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point. "Don't iron while the strike is hot" was one slogan. How can he with the page of history spread out before him doubt her identity with himself. In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women's rights. He knew he was doing wrong, but his love for Eve prevailed and he did eat. Lucy Stone's speech to the Women's Rights Convention; 1848 (given in Seneca Falls, New York) Mary Church Terrell's "The Progress of Colored Women"; 1904. The Women's March marked its first anniversary over the past weekend (January 20-21), holding anniversary rallies . U.S. Internationalism 2130 Skinner Building Hillary Rodham Clinton: (05:33) It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. When woman instead of being taxed to endow colleges where she is forbidden to enter, instead of forming societies to educate young men shall first educate herself, when she shall be just to herself before she is generous to others-improving the talents God has given her and leaving her neighbour to do the same for himself we shall not then hear so much of this boasted greatness. What! [28] Is it not strange that man is so slow to admit the intellectual power the moral heroism of woman. As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes, the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized. That there have been comparatively a greater proportion of good queens than of good kings is a fact stated by several historians. The perfect rowdyism that now characterizes the debates in our national congress-all these are great facts which rise up against mans claim to moral superiority. I would like to thank the Secretary General of the United Nations for inviting me to be part of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Become a freelancer and work on your own terms. It is conferences like this that compel governments and peoples everywhere to listen, look, and face the worlds most pressing problems. Then with what magic power, by kindness and love, was he raised from the slough of despond and placed rejoicing on high land. Can women here, although her spiritual and intellectual nature is recognized to a somewhat greater degree than among the Turks, and she is allowed the privilege of being in her nursery and kitchen, and although the Christian promises her the ascendancy in Heaven as man has it here, while the Mahomedan closes the golden gates of the Celestial city tight against her-can she be content notwithstanding these good things to remain debarred from an equal share with man in the pure enjoyments arising from the full cultivation of her mind and her admission into the rights and privileges which are hers. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a x pretty soon. But across the globe many women and girls still face . From the man of highest mental cultivation, to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we hear ridicule and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man-his equal, placed here by her God to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is her home as it is his-having the same sense of right and wrong and looking to the same Being for guidance and support. The late distinguished Dr Channing of Boston was very small and feeble in appearance and voice, yet he has moved the world by the eloquence of his pen. Her words to the crowd at the Women's Convention would help her to become one of the most famous . Women comprise more than half the worlds population, 70 percent of the worlds poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. When young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation. Retrieved March . Is the moral and religious life of this class what we might expect from minds (said to be) continually fixed on such mighty themes? Malala Yousafzai at the U.N., July 12, 2013 Reuters. Add English on-screen subtitles for videos. But the woman would require more management. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss womens rights as separate from human rights. Now it is time to act on behalf of women everywhere.. Sarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking. Let them listen to the voices of women in their homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. To know whether a man is truly great and good, you must not judge by his appearance in the great world, but follow him to his home-where all restraints are laid aside-there we see the true man his virtues and his vices too. think not that he who made the heavens and the earth, the whole planetary world ever moving on in such harmony and order, that he who has so bountifully scattered, through all nature so many objects that delight, enchant and fill us with admiration and wonder, that he who has made the mighty ocean mountain and cataract, the bright and joyous birds, the tender lovely flowers, that he who made man in his own image, perfect, noble and pure, loving justice, mercy, and truth, think not that He has had any part in the production of that creeping, cringing, crawling, debased selfish monster now extant, claiming for himself the name of man. By Mia Swart. Phyllis Schlafly took the opposing view on women's rights, declaring What . 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