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We'll join in! Women beneath the flags of and in the uniforms of the %+%Organization%m%66%n%Vierbund%-% of Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria, are willing to play their part in the war effort.
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Wir machen mit!
We'll join in!
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Dated Augsburg, February 3, 1916

We'll join in! Women beneath the flags of and in the uniforms of the Vierbund of Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria, are willing to play their part in the war effort.

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Wir machen mit!

We'll join in!



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Dated Augsburg, February 3, 1916

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Thursday, November 29, 1917

". . . however men have seen it, and may continue for a time to see it, women do count. Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in the government. That is the democratic goal toward which the world is striving today.

In our own country woman suffrage is but one, if acute, phase of the problem. The Negro question is but another. The enfranchisement of the foreign-born peoples who sweep into this country and forget to leave the hyphen at home is yet another."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from an article 'Votes for All' by Carrie Chapman Catt, published in The Crisis, November, 1917. Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and had supported America's entry into the war. In her piece, she had already made the point that both black and white men opposed giving women the vote, and that President Woodrow Wilson's call to war had been a call in support of democracy, despite the great failures of his own nation. Catt urges women on, arguing that 'the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.'

Source

World War I and America by A. Scott Berg, page 431, copyright © 2017 by Literary Classics of the United States, publisher: The Library of America, publication date: 2017

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1917-11-29, 1917, November suffrage, women's suffrage, women