Emmeline Pankhurst

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

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

We have to look facts in the face. We are not living in a civilised country.

I incite this meeting to rebellion.

Men make the moral code and expect women to bow to it. I refuse to bow to it. I refuse to accept it.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact, you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

We are here to claim our right as women, not because we are women, but because we are human beings.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

We are not going to be content any longer to be the patient, submissive drudges of the community.

The condition of women is so deplorable that it is their duty to rebel.

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

The only way to get the vote was to fight for it.

If civilization has been a masculine creation, it has been a very imperfect creation.

We are not fighting a sex war, we are fighting a human war.

The women’s battle will not be won until they have their own ammunition.

Put your hand on the lever and pull it, and if it won’t move, hit it with a hammer.

Trust us, not with your compliments, but with your votes.

We were called militant, and we were militant. We were called violent, and we were violent.

When we are told that women are safe in the hands of men, I just point to the facts.

What would you say if I told you that I had been on hunger strike?