Emmeline Pankhurst

“Suffragettes have to be prepared to break the law.”

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

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”

“Deeds, not words.”

“Trust in God. She will provide.”

“Justice and judgment are distant cousins.”

“The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.”

“Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.”

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

“I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion.”

“Women are very slow to rouse, but once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make them give way.”

“They have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.”

“It is our duty to break the law in order to call attention to the bad law.”

“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.”

“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals.”

“I am not here to talk about the past. I am here to talk about the future.”

“Once the women are roused, they will not be put down.”

“Never surrender, never give up the fight.”