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> [Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/every-principle-of-liberty-enunciated-in-any-civilised-country-on/)

[Emmeline Pankhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmeline-pankhurst/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/the-government-must-not-think-that-they-can-stop-this-agitation-it/)

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> [If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/if-it-is-right-for-men-to-fight-for-their-freedom-and-god-knows-what/)

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> [Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/governments-have-always-tried-to-crush-reform-movements-to-destroy/)

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> [I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/i-have-made-speeches-urging-women-to-adopt-methods-of-rebellion-such/)

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> [What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/what-is-the-use-of-fighting-for-the-vote-if-we-do-not-have-a-country/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/i-had-to-get-a-close-hand-view-of-the-misery-and-unhappiness-of-a-man/)

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> [Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/men-make-the-moral-code-and-they-expect-women-to-accept-it-they-have/)

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> [The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/the-english-prison-system-is-altogether-mediaeval-and-outworn-in-some/)

[Emmeline Pankhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/when-you-have-warfare-things-happen-people-suffer-the-noncombatants/)

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> [I would rather be a rebel than a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/i-would-rather-be-a-rebel-than-a-slave/)

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> [There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/there-is-something-that-governments-care-for-far-more-than-human-life/)

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> [You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/you-have-to-make-more-noise-than-anybody-else-you-have-to-make/)

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> [Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/those-men-and-women-are-fortunate-who-are-born-at-a-time-when-a-great/)

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> [Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/often-i-have-heard-the-taunt-that-suffragists-are-women-who-have/)

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> [Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/those-men-and-women-are-fortunate-who-are-born-at-a-time-when-a-great-2/)

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