No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
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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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt 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 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.
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Ben WhishawBen Whishaw If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn’t true.
Sean ConnerySean Connery Binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan ChadwickAlan Chadwick As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.
Aelred of RievaulxAelred of Rievaulx Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
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