Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes About Woman Suffrage

• 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.

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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  War   Struggle   Men  

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• 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.

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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Justice   Progress   Next Steps  

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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 regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex   Women   Law  

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women   Law   Political  

  1110

• The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Independence   United States   Movement  

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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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  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Laughing   Words Of Wisdom   Victory  

  1930

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