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Emmeline Pankhurst

English Activist

Born: Jul 15, 1858

Died: Jun 14, 1928

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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

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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice Lie World Judgment Often Apart

Trust in God - she will provide. Emmeline Pankhurst

God Trust Will She Provide

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. Emmeline Pankhurst

Become Our Because Efforts Here

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

Politics History Mother First Patient Baby Other Everybody Cries Kicks Indefinitely Unpleasant Impatient Fed Attended Feed Perfectly Know Until Well Makes Ready Waits Which Whole

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. Emmeline Pankhurst

Human Being Matter Crime Men Too Criminals Punishment Solitary Solitary Confinement Instead Terrible Said Prisons His Beg Any Often Human Inflict Being Confinement Hardened Lash

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands. Emmeline Pankhurst

You Business Vote People Logical Mind Will Whatever Other Evident Out About Proper More Perfectly Combination Attentive Demands Got Get Send Any Legislature Want Cannot Them Use Your Choose Who Sufficient Numbers

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Emmeline Pankhurst

Otherwise Temperament Scarcely Could Had Unconscious Suppose Always Been Surroundings

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime. Emmeline Pankhurst

Political Crime Opinion Regarded Englishmen Expression Treated Honest

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed. Emmeline Pankhurst

Women Liberty Men Country Practice Few Situation Every Earth Indeed Tried Unpleasant Entirely Civilized Exceptions Had Putting Come Force Principle Principles Discovered Very Intended Any Then

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in. Emmeline Pankhurst

Sunshine Old Building Prison Enough Air Once Bad Disadvantages Never Generations Known Been Very Place Which Places Ever

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten. Emmeline Pankhurst

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The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness. Emmeline Pankhurst

Life Women Battle World Righteousness Men Those Through Blood Human Centuries Human Life Militancy Who Fought Lives Harmed Save

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

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 something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. Emmeline Pankhurst

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