Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Cattwas an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 January 1859
CountryUnited States of America
Carrie Chapman Catt quotes about
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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.
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.
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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.
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.
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 struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.