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 CATT
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
Carrie Chapman Catt on argument
Carrie Chapman Catt21 quotes“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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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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 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 The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EpicurusEpicurus Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.
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Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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