Emmeline Pankhurst

"Society will not change until women demand that it change."

"Our work is not about rebellion for its own sake, but for justice."

"The pen and the voice are weapons of the powerless."

"I have learned that patience without action leads to despair."

"Women must see themselves as agents of history, not victims of it."

"The greatest tragedy is when women accept their own oppression."

"We teach our daughters to think, not merely to obey."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its women."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"We do not fight because we hate, but because we love justice."

"The promise of democracy is unfulfilled as long as half the population cannot vote."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"The consciousness of women must be awakened to their own dignity."

"We are rewriting history with every act of resistance."

"The survival of democracy depends on the enfranchisement of women."

"I would rather die than live as a second-class citizen."

"The voice of women, when united, cannot be silenced."

"We carry the torch of justice for generations yet unborn."

"The bonds of sisterhood are stronger than any external force."

"True progress is measured not in comfort, but in principle."

"We are not rebels against society, but midwives of a new one."

"The argument of the broken windowpane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"Women have always fought for their rights, sometimes with words, sometimes with action."

"Great movements of the world have proceeded from a hatred of injustice."

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

"The duty of the militant suffragist is to do the duty that comes nearest at hand."

"You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs, and you cannot advance the cause of women without the struggle that we are engaged in."

"If you wish women to work with you, you must respect them as equals in the struggle."

"I had anticipated that to be a soldier for one's country was glorious, but to be a soldier for one's sex is infinitely more glorious."

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