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 CATTJust 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 CATTThe 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.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTWhen a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTRoll 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 CATTTo the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTParliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe 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 CATTWhite supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTIn the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThe 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 CATTThe struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTIf we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATTThere are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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