What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
More Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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Just as the world war is no white man’s war, but every man’s war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman’s struggle, but every woman’s struggle.
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Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
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There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
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The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
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The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
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The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
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