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Frases de Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt foi uma líder do sufrágio feminino americano que fez campanha pela Décima Nona Emenda à Constituição dos Estados Unidos - que deu às mulheres americanas o direito de voto em 1920. Catt serviu como presidente da Associação Nacional para o Sufrágio das Mulheres Americanas de 1900 a 1904 e de 1915 a 1920. Ela fundou a Liga das Mulheres Eleitoras em 1920 e a International Woman Suffrage Alliance em 1904, que mais tarde foi chamada de International Alliance of Women. Ela "liderou um exército de mulheres sem voto em 1919 para pressionar o Congresso a aprovar a emenda constitucional que lhes dava o direito de votar e convenceu as legislaturas estaduais a ratificá-la em 1920" e "foi uma das mulheres mais conhecidas dos Estados Unidos na primeira metade do século XX e estava em todas as listas de mulheres americanas famosas." Wikipedia

✵ 9. Janeiro 1859 – 12. Março 1947

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Carrie Chapman Catt: Frases em inglês

“When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done in that country, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.”

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from a speech at Stockholm, Is Woman Suffrage Progressing? quoted in "Not Just the Cleaning Lady: A Hygienist's Guide to Survival" by Cat Anne Schmidt (1997)

“This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility & then called her weak.”

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From a 1902 speech as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association quoted in "The Wings of Dawn" by Louise Scarmato (2013)

“Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.”

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Printed in over 7 million pamphlets, distributed at over 10,000 Sufragists meetings in 1913. "Democracy" by Sue Vander Hook (2011)

“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”

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Quoted in "Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life" by Jacqueline Van Voris (1996)

“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”

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Quoted in Great Women of the Suffrage Movement (We the People: Industrial America) by Dana Meachen Rau (2005)