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