Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

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

Carrie Chapman Catt

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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Father
  • Faith

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Constitution

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Nails

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Leadership
  • Doing
  • Class

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Violence

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Even allegedly gender-neutral words like 'sexist' imply slights only against women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Words

• Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham

• At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.

  

  Ella Henderson

• A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Women
  • She

• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Why

• My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

  

  Dougray Scott
  • Focus

• Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Children
  • Religious

• I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Thinking

• I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Desire
  • Inarticulate

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

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Women
  • Future
  • Distance