When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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 CattNo written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman CattService to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
Carrie Chapman CattThe world taught women 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, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
Carrie Chapman Catt