Quotes from 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 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.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

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.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

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.

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

When a just cause reaches its flood tide… whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

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

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.

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.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.