We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
—Emmeline Pankhurst
Topics: Protest
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 that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
—Emmeline Pankhurst
Topics: Revolution
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, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.
—Emmeline Pankhurst
Topics: Correction, Reform
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.
—Emmeline Pankhurst
Topics: Risk, Commitment, Dedication
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