"No written law has ever been more binding……" — Carrie Chapman Catt
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."
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15 Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt has 15 quotes on this site.
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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If…
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American…
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Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman…
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Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in…
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said…
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Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole…
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming…
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
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