Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
