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Carrie Chapman Catt
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“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Great Women of the Suffrage Movement (We the People: Industrial America) by Dana Meachen Rau (2005)
“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life" by Jacqueline Van Voris (1996)
“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.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Printed in over 7 million pamphlets, distributed at over 10,000 Sufragists meetings in 1913. "Democracy" by Sue Vander Hook (2011)
“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. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility & then called her weak.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a 1902 speech as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association quoted in "The Wings of Dawn" by Louise Scarmato (2013)
“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.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from a speech at Stockholm, Is Woman Suffrage Progressing? quoted in "Not Just the Cleaning Lady: A Hygienist's Guide to Survival" by Cat Anne Schmidt (1997)
“Woman suffrage in the South would so vastly increase the white vote that it would guarantee white supremacy if it otherwise stood in danger of overthrow...If the South really wants White Supremacy, it will urge the enfranchisement of women.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We met a curious dilemma. On the one hand a great many men voted in the negative because women in Great Britain had made too emphatic a demand for the vote. Since they made that demand it is reported that 10,000,000 men have been killed, wounded or are missing through militant action, but all of that is held as naught compared with the burning of a few vacant buildings.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evidently the logic that these American men followed was: Since some turbulent women in another land are unfit to vote, no American woman shall vote. There was no reasoning that could change the attitude of those men. On the other hand the great majority of the men who voted against us, as well as the great majority of the members of Legislatures and Congress who oppose this movement, hold that women have given no signal that they want the vote. Between the horns of this amazing dilemma the Federal amendment and State suffrage seem to be caught fast.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So those of us who want to learn how to obtain the vote have naturally asked ourselves over and over again what kind of a demand can be made. We get nothing by "watchful waiting" and if we are turbulent we are pronounced unfit to vote.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we may ask what have women done? Again I may say that New York is a fair example because it is the largest of the States in population and has the second city in size in the world and occupies perhaps the most important position in any land in which a suffrage referendum has been taken. Women held during the six months prior to the election in 1915, 10,300 meetings. They printed and circulated 7,500,000 leaflets or three-and-a-half for every voter. These leaflets weighed more than twenty tons. They had 770 treasuries in the State among the different groups doing suffrage work and every bookkeeper except two was a volunteer. Women by the thousands contributed to the funds of that campaign, in one group 12,000 public school teachers. On election day 6,330 women watched at the polls from 5:45 in the morning until after the vote was counted. I was on duty myself from 5:30 until midnight. There were 2,500 campaign officers in the State who gave their time without pay. The publicity features were more numerous and unique than any campaign of men or women had ever had. They culminated in a parade in New York City which was organized without any effort to secure women outside the city to participate in it, yet 20,000 marched through Fifth Avenue to give some idea of the size of their demand for the vote.”
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source