Feminism Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

...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

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

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

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

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

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

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

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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