Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
"
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
More powerful than kings and armies is an idea whose time has come to move.
"
More powerful than kings and armies is an idea whose time has come to move.
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 struggle, but every woman’s struggle.
"
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 struggle, but every woman’s struggle.
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
"
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
"
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
"
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
"
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
"
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
"
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
"
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
Showing 1 to 10 of 33 results