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Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American suffragette, human rights activist, author, and icon. In 1890, she formed the Woman’s National Liberal Union, and at its founding convention, Gage delivered the speech "Dangers of the Hour". In this ardent and extensive address, Gage touches upon many of the goals she herself and the union aim for and the rights to which they believe all are entitled. Beyond equal rights for women, these also include religious freedom and equal rights for ethnic minorities.

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Frances D. Gage was one of the most significant figures in women’s history that the United States ever produced. Gage was a leading figure in feminism, reformation, and various human rights campaigns in the 19th century. She was also a passionate and vocal support of the abolitionist movement and it was regarding the fight for emancipation of the salves at the time that Gage made her Address to the American Equal Rights Association, delivered at the association’s first anniversary at the Church of the Puritans, New York in 1867.

Sarah Mapps Douglas was an African American lecturer, writer, and fervent abolitionist. Douglas’ address, now commonly referred to as "Sarah Mapps Douglas Urges Support for the Anti-Slavery Cause", made in 1832, is essential Civil War-era rhetoric for the abolishment of slavery. As an address, it is also extremely historically important as one of the only public speeches on the subject made by a black woman.

With work like "Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions", first published in 1911, it is no wonder American Nobel Peace Prize-winner, activist, philosopher, sociologist, and suffragette Jane Addams is known as the "mother" of social work. The social work Addams did, and the colossal steps she took in the name of world peace and human rights cannot be overstated, and "Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions" is among the work that helped cement this woman’s legacy.

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. In this 1916 speech, The Crisis, she called for vigorous action towards attaining women’s suffrage. It was in no small part due to Catt’s tireless efforts that American women were granted the right to vote in 1920.

Anna Howard Shaw is indeed a fascinating figure in American history. Physician, Suffragette, social reformer, and one of the first female ordained Methodist ministers, but where Shaw really shines is as an orator. A vanguard of feminism in the United States, Shaw made many an address in the name of equal rights for women, and The Fundamental Principle of a Republic was among her finest.