Carrie Chapman Catt on cost
Carrie Chapman Catt21 quotes“The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.”
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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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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 CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt
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