Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share
