Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.

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.

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.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.