Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes
Quotes
Activism“The moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals.”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ 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 fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ We were called militant, and we were quite willing to accept the name. We were determined to press this question of the enfranchisement of women to the point where we were no longer to be ignored by the politicians. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ I would rather be a rebel than a slave. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ 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 no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ It is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ Trust in God she will provide. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ 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 successfully revolt against it. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend. ”
Emmeline PankhurstQuotes
Activism“ 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 papers more than anybody else. ”
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