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Carrie Chapman Catt has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 it is…
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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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 suffrage no…
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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 it, without…
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did…
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Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will…
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or…
— Maya Angelou
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that…
— Andre Gide
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
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In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the…
— Konrad Lorenz
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
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