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

Carrie Chapman Catt

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.

Carrie Chapman Catt

I bought a few new novels, have started two, and if they reflect present day literature or the popular mind, I must say the outlook is gloomy.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Carrie Chapman Catt

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Born: January 9, 1859

Died: March 9, 1947 (aged 88)

Bio: Carrie Chapman Catt was 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.

Known for:

Woman suffrage and politics (1923)
The Ballot and the Bullet

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