There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThere are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTTo the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTWhite supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTRoll 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 CATTThe 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.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe 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 CATTJust 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 CATTThe 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 CATTService to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTIn the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTIf we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTWhat 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 CATTThere 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 CATTNo written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTliving for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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