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Quote by Carrie Chapman Catt

“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.”

Author

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt was an American social reformer and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and served as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association twice. more

“it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.”

“What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.”

Reason Feelings Able Opinion Heard Judgment Argument Prejudice

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“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.”

Men Giving Made Two Country Given Sex Effort Class Generations Groups Vote Fortune Command Secure Other Countries Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“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.”

People Years War Done Purpose One Thing Intelligent Dues Threatening Vigorous

Book:Why wars must cease

Source: Why wars must cease

“The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

Philosophy Taken Blessing Calamity Provinces

Book:The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

Source: The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.”

War Beautiful Literature Successful Clever Breasts Ugliness Unattractive

Author:Graham Greene

“True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.”

Wells Hope Vision Emotional Perception Comprehension True Vision

Author:Ross Parmenter

“Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.”

Men Feelings Order Talking Baseball

Author:Deborah Tannen

“In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.”

Mind Doe Dialogue Opposition Open Mind Collision Smashing

Book:The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue