it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
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… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
