Carrie Chapman Catt

“When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.”

“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by public opinion.”

“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”

“Woman suffrage is coming--you know it. Will you, Honorable Senators, not see the handwriting on the wall?”

“The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless.”

“Anti-suffragists have never been able to answer the question: What is the quality in my sex which makes me unworthy to have a voice in my government?”

“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”

“The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Use it intelligently, conscientiously, prayerfully.”

“The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guaranty of your liberty.”

“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”

“There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty—the restraint of law and the restraint of custom.”

“Ours is a nation born of revolution, of rebellion against a system of government so securely entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that in 1776 it seemed impregnable.”