I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began … - Emmeline Pankhurst

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In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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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It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

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There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

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[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

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