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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.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Being Cannot Civil Civil War Consent Earth Escapes Feeble Forces Govern Her His However Human Human Being Power She Then Very War Weakest Who Woman You

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

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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Trust in God - she will provide.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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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.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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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.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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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.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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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.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Activist

Born: July 14th, 1858

Died: June 14th, 1928

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