When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTliving for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
More Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
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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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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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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 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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The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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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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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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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
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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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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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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
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