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“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.”

Quote by Carrie Chapman Catt

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Carrie Chapman Catt
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

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