Pankhurst Suffragette Quotes & Sayings

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental. — Justin Welby

When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab. — Abu Hanifa

My conduct in the Free Trade Hall and outside was meant as a protest against the legal position of women today. We cannot make any orderly protest because we have not the means whereby citizens may do such a thing; we have not a vote; and so long as we have not votes we must be disorderly. There is no other way whereby we can put forward our claims to political justice. When we have that you will not see us at the police courts; but so long as we have not votes this will happen. — Christabel Pankhurst

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but ... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible. — Nicola Sturgeon

ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it'd seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun. — Warren Ellis

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others. — Robin Sloan

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend. — Emmeline Pankhurst

I want to say right here, that those well-meaning friends on the outside who say that we have suffered these horrors of prison, of hunger strikes and forcible feeding, because we desired to martyrise ourselves for the cause, are absolutely and entirely mistaken. We never went to prison in order to be martyrs. We went there in order that we might obtain the rights of citizenship. We were willing to break laws that we might force men to give us the right to make laws. — Emmeline Pankhurst

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. — Megan McCafferty

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why
is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says
people need to shave twice a day. — Jeff Kinney