Carrie Chapman Catt
Quotes
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This world taught woman 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.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done in that country, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
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There are two kinds of restrictions upoin human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by public opinion.
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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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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.
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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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Frances Perkins: "The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time and I had a kind of
duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so
establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high
seats." (to Carrie Chapman Catt)
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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