22 Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt, a prominent suffragist and women's rights activist, played a pivotal role in the fight for gender equality and the women's suffrage movement. Her strategic leadership and tireless advocacy were instrumental in securing the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Catt's innovative and persuasive approach to activism emphasized the importance of nonviolent protest and cooperation with political leaders.
She founded the League of Women Voters, an organization committed to empowering women through education and voter registration, further solidifying her impact on the democratic process. Carrie Chapman Catt's dedication and unwavering commitment to the cause of women's suffrage not only reshaped the political landscape but also inspired generations of women to actively engage in social and political change. Her lasting influence continues to be felt in the ongoing pursuit of gender equality worldwide.
Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
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.
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 vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
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.
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 vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
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.
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.
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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.
― Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
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