Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, ‘If you were my wife I’d poison you’:] No, you wouldn’t. I’d do it myself.

Poison

Speaking Up

Wife

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

Civil Disobedience

Deeds

Greater

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: “We withhold our consent,” we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

Government

Long

Unjust

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

Men

Revolution

Speech

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.

Bitterness

Men

Sorrow

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

Suffragists

Surroundings

Unconscious

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Hands

Law

Thinking

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

Independent

Thinking

Women

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Independent Women

Rebel

Slavery

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.

Children

Fighting

Men

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Abundance

Accepting

Animal

Baby

Battle

Bitterness

Blood

Broken

Children

Civil Disobedience

Consent

Country

Daughter

Deeds

Desire

Enemy

Fighting

Government

Greater

Half

Hands

Independent

Independent Women

Justice

Law

Long

Lying

Men

Mind

Mom

Morality

Mother

Numbers

People

Poison

Progress

Race

Rebel

Revolution

Rights

Slavery

Son

Sorrow

Speaking Up

Speech

Struggle

Suffragists

Surroundings

Thinking

Trust

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Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, ‘If you were my wife I’d poison you’:] No, you wouldn’t. I’d do it myself.

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: “We withhold our consent,” we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

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

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.

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

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

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.

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