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Category Archive: Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “Trust in God – she will…”

Trust in God – she will provide.

October 25, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “One baby is a patient baby…”

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.

October 23, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “Not by the forces of civil…”

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

October 22, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “Justice and judgment lie often a…”

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

October 15, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is…”

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.

September 20, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “Those men and women are fortunate…”

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

September 15, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “I suppose I had always been…”

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

September 2, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “My childhood was protected by love…”

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.

August 17, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “I was fourteen years old when…”

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.

July 31, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

Emmeline Pankhurst Quote: “The English prison system is altogether…”

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.

April 24, 2021 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, English, July 14, Quotes by Activists

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