Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching…
• Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was…
• We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.
• What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?
• ...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 here…
• You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the…
• Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
• The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
• 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 could…
• There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property…
• Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to…
• I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's…
• I would rather be a rebel than a slave.
• Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that…
• I am what you call a hooligan-
• I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
• My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was…
• You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is…
• How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.
• What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved…

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