When a just cause reaches its flood-tide … whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American women's suffrage activist
“Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?” speech, Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Stockholm (13 Jun 1911)
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Quotations by:
Catt, Carrie Chapman
I give it as my firmest conviction that service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American women's suffrage activist
“The Making of A Pioneer Suffragette,” in The American Scrap Book (1928)
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To the wrong that needs resistance
To the right that needs assistance
To the future in the distance
Give yourself!Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American women's suffrage activist
Personal Motto
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Conveyed in a letter from Catt to Aletta Jacobs, after the death of Jacobs' husband.