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.
Carrie Chapman CattParliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
Carrie Chapman CattThe struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
Carrie Chapman CattThere are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
Carrie Chapman CattWhen a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman CattFor two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
Carrie Chapman Catt