Carrie Chapman Catt
Activist
1859-01-09 – 1947-03-09
American leader of the women’s suffrage movement and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She helped direct the campaign that culminated in ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. After suffrage, she helped found the League of Women Voters.
Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt
-
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Read quote -
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
Read quote -
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Read quote -
When a just cause reaches its flood tide ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
Read quote -
When a just cause reaches its floodtide ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
Read quote