Carrie Chapman Catt Born : January 9, 1859 Died : March 9, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt 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. Carrie Chapman Catt fighting mind 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. Carrie Chapman Catt responsibility sex school To the wrongs that need resistance, Carrie Chapman Catt distance honesty integrity The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country. Carrie Chapman Catt vote mean country If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory. Carrie Chapman Catt no-failure victory ifs 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 race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government. Carrie Chapman Catt women law sex In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. Carrie Chapman Catt demand voice order Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. Carrie Chapman Catt real happiness life No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Carrie Chapman Catt women political law The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior. Carrie Chapman Catt effort struggle men 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 party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign. Carrie Chapman Catt equality party country The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty. Carrie Chapman Catt liberty guarantees america it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent. Carrie Chapman Catt justice men two 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. Carrie Chapman Catt government answers people White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. Carrie Chapman Catt womens-suffrage supremacy white The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Carrie Chapman Catt offense-and-defense weapons prayer 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. Carrie Chapman Catt next-steps progress justice When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. Carrie Chapman Catt democracy way fall What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came. Carrie Chapman Catt prejudice able feelings There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. Carrie Chapman Catt usa doe country
