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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
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Age: 88 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 9
Died: 1947
Died: March 9
Feminist
Journalist
Peace Activist
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City of Ripon
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
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Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
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For 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.
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The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
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the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.
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