Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst - Page 1

Trust in God - she will provide.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
God
Trust
Abundance
Trust In God
Will
Provide
She
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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Judgment
Apart
Often
Lie
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Destruction
Property
Advised
Yes
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Argument
Broken
Modern
Valuable
Window
Most
Pane
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We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Because
Here
Efforts
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Rebellion
Revolution
Adopt
Methods
Speeches
Urging
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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Surroundings
Temperament
Unconscious
Suppose
Otherwise
Scarcely
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When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
War
Civil War
Things Happen
Warfare
Civil
Happen
Suffer
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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Consent
Critical
Human Beings
Govern
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I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Bitterness
Injustice
Men And Women
Realisation
Social Injustice
Sorrow
Suffered
Personally
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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 / Activist
Crime
Englishmen
Opinion
Regarded
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My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Sister
Importance
Brothers
Discussed
Parents
Question
Scarcely
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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 / Activist
Comfortable
Common
Distress
Forgotten
Greater
Latter
Prison
Almost
Expect
Fact
Mental
Physical
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Fourteen
Setting
Suffrage
Me Day School
Meeting
Returning
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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 / Activist
Confinement
Crime
Hardened
Matter
Punishment
Said
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Terrible
Beg
Too
Often
Human Being
Inflict
Instead
Lash
Prisons
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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 / Activist
Battle
Blood
Human Life
Militancy
Righteousness
Life Men Women
Centuries
Life Women Men
Fought
Harmed
Save
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Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Character
Citizens
Defenders
Episodes
Free Speech
Manchester
Opinion
Sentiments
Stirring
Free
Generally
Liberal
Speaking
Witnessed
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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 / Activist
Women
Code
Decided
Moral
Men Women Fight
Accept
Fight
Entirely
Expect
Women Men Fight
Liberties
Right
Proper
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Civil War
Consent
Civil
Escapes
Feeble
Forces
Govern
However
Human Being
Weakest
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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 / Activist
Enemy
Human Life
Militant
Property
Rebellion
Security
Life Your Care
Governments
Incite
Meeting
Shall
Strike
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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 / Activist
Family
Home
Comfortable
Conception
Incomplete
Lacking
My Own
Protected
Young
Love Family Home
Child
Began
Still
False
Ideal
Instinctively
Relations
While
Young Child
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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 / Activist
Human Race
Race
Today
Since
Bear
Began
Fight
Fought
God Freedom Time
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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 / Activist
Women
Equal
Giving
Moral
Political
Political Power
Laws
Through
Power Men Women
Count
Enforce
Women Power Men
Must
Standard
Registered
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Details
Altogether
Forced
Improved
Send
Slight
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Thankful
Born
Fortunate
Glad
Good Fortune
Human Freedom
Men And Women
Struggle
Time Good Freedom
Women Are
Added
Case
Freedom Time Good
Parents
Movements
Personal
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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 / Activist
Air
Disadvantages
Generations
Prison
Sunshine
Places
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Accustomed
British
British Government
Civil War
Decided
Divided
England
Infancy
Opinion
Public Opinion
Recognise
Secession
Although
Civil
Con
Confederacy
Discussions
Finally
Pro
Sharply
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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 / Activist
Civilized
Liberty
Practice
Situation
Discovered
Entirely
Exceptions
Women Men Country
Indeed
Intended
Principle
Putting
Unpleasant
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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 / Activist
History
Impatient
Mother
Patient
Ready
Everybody
Attended
First
Feed
Cries
Fed
Indefinitely
Makes
Other
Well
Perfectly
Unpleasant
Waits
Which
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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 / Activist
Combination
Evident
Legislature
Logical
Numbers
Sufficient
Vote
Business Your Mind
Attentive
Business Mind People
Choose
Business Mind Your
Perfectly
Proper
Send
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Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Disappointed
Heard
Home Life
Imperfect
Normal
Life Women Home
Beings
Nearly
Certainly
Emotions
Failed
Ideal
Outlet
Relations
Taunt
Therefore
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