Emmeline Pankhurst

"I have been in the pursuit of freedom for over fifty years. That should incline all those who love liberty to be patient with one who continues in that unfinished work until her life's end."

"We are here, not because we want to make trouble, but because we are compelled by the injustice of the present situation to do so."

"The important thing is not the life that is taken, but the way that life is taken."

"Action, when it is finally taken, brings relief to the nerves."

"I have wrought my life sore upon a stone; I have exhausted the lapis lazuli of the sky."

"Deeds, not words, shall be the cry of the future."

"Just as the old must make way for the new, so in each individual life change is always in order."

"If you wish to move mountains, you must believe that mountains can be moved."

"We women are not content to be passengers in this vessel; we must also navigate it."

"The day may be approaching when the very name of England will be a symbol of shame among civilized nations."

"I have not personally suffered from the deprivation, the misunderstanding, and the lack of respect that I should have expected."

"There is something that governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property."

"We are here, and we mean to be heard."

"The cat-and-mouse game is no new discovery in the sphere of politics or revolution."

"Freedom is not given, it is taken."

"I would rather be a rebel than a slave."

"You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs, and you cannot inaugurate a new condition of society without dissolving the old one."

"Our demand is simple: that women be given human rights and human treatment."

"I think if given the choice between fowls and women, I think we are nearer akin to the first."

"To be militant in a cause which I hold to be just, to fight to the bitter end for it—that is not a crime, it is a duty."

"The condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we're advocating its change."

"Women have suffered immemorial ages at the hands of that beast, man, and it has now become his victim."

"When you put restrictions on a human being, restrictions come off in the form of an explosion."

"I have never for one moment regretted the line I took."

"For me, as an individual, I refuse to obey unjust laws."

"One cannot have a revolution without revolutionaries."

"Courage, great courage, is the price that fate now demands of us."

"We have tried every other constitutional method that is known to political reformers, and we have failed."

"The spirit of militancy, if it is to do any good, must not be submitted to until the end."

"I was met with the statement, 'Well, you are a martyr.' That is not true; I am not a martyr; I am a prisoner of war."