Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

Emmeline Pankhurst (English - Activist)

 

July 15, 1858 - June 14, 1928

 

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Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

 

 

 

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Trust in God - she will provide.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.