Explore Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

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.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

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

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.

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.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

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

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.

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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.