Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

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

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice and judgement lie often a world apart.~ Emmeline Pankhurst

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

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

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

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

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

Trust in God - she will provide.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

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