To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
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 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
