More from Carrie 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 No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt
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From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on effort
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.
Ibn HazmIbn Hazm You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.
Danielle LaPorteDanielle LaPorte The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
Daniel DennettDaniel Dennett What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
Rita OraRita Ora Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter
