The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions… — 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
