Carrie Chapman Catt
(1859-1947)

American Women's Suffragist, Peace Activist
National Women's Hall of Fame

birthdate: January 9
birthplace:
Ripon, Wisconsin

QUOTES

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 - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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