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Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

1859–1947 United States

Carrie Chapman Catt (9 January, 1859 – 9 March, 1947) 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. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920.

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Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

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

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

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carrie Chapman Catt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.