Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Nancy Gibbs
- Justice
- Fire
- Revolution
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

Adam Michnik
- War
- Justice
- Revolution
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

Eavan Boland
- Time
- Political
- Identity
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

Ha-Joon Chang
- People
- Up
- Long
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Ibrahim Rugova
- Want
- Will
- Independence
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Ferdinand Mount
- Government
- Independence