living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
CARRIE 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.
More Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
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living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
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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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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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The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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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 vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
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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.
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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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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 is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
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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.
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