No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
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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 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.
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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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.
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Adelaide CrapseyAdelaide Crapsey Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other.
Adam MickiewiczAdam Mickiewicz But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven
Abraham ColesAbraham Coles If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind you.
George HarrisonGeorge Harrison We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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