The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
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.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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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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The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
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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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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 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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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
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living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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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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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
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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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