...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. Emmeline Pankhurst More Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst More Quotes From Emmeline Pankhurst I would rather be a rebel than a slave. Emmeline Pankhurst rebel slavery independent-women 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 through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. Emmeline Pankhurst law men country We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. Emmeline Pankhurst women race justice Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery. Emmeline Pankhurst feminism slavery fighting We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest. Emmeline Pankhurst half race world 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 Pankhurst fighting rights men A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words. Emmeline Pankhurst civil-disobedience greater deeds 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. Emmeline Pankhurst reform paper snow 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 established. Emmeline Pankhurst fighting men children One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. Emmeline Pankhurst mother waiting baby ...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 in out efforts to become law-makers. Emmeline Pankhurst women government thinking Trust in God - she will provide. Emmeline Pankhurst abundance trust-in-god trust If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. Emmeline Pankhurst fighting men children What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in? Emmeline Pankhurst women fighting country There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion! Emmeline Pankhurst government idols secret I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote. Emmeline Pankhurst women independent thinking I am what you call a hooligan- Emmeline Pankhurst If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence. Emmeline Pankhurst violence justice men The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Emmeline Pankhurst window-panes women broken Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. Emmeline Pankhurst progress struggle men
