Feminism Quote by Carrie Chapman Catt

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

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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

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

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

— Emma Goldman

Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark,…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in…

— Jeannette Rankin

The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of…

— Winston Churchill

Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in…

— Anthea Butler

The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights…

— Al Gore

The women's suffrage movement was the gateway that led to women having the opportunities to achieve monumental milestones and accomplish significant achievements in both…

— Karen Pence

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great…

— Ellen DuBois

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi