The 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 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
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
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
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
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
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
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
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
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
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
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… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share
