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

—  Carrie Chapman Catt

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

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American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947) 1859–1947

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