Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes & Sayings
31 most famous Emmeline Pankhurst quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a British activist who passed away on 14 June, 1928.
“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.”
“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.”
“Trust in God - she will provide.”
“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.”
“I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.”
“I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.”
“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.”
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