Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

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.

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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.

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

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

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