75 Quotes by 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

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

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

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

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.

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.

Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.

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.