75 Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

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, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

a defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...

There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Trust in God - she will provide.

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