There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
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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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The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
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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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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 struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
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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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