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Emmeline Pankhurst

Trust in God – she will provide.

Trust, She, Will

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

Time, Women, Good

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

Women, Men, Giving

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

Men, Fight, Moral

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

Men, Practice, Liberty

Emmeline Pankhurst

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Men, Revolution, Rebellion

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

Time, Children, Freedom

Emmeline Pankhurst

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

American, Government

Emmeline Pankhurst

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

helping, people

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.”~ Emmeline Pankhurst

free, human, peace

Emmeline Pankhurst

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.

feminism, memoir, suffrage, women