Emmeline Pankhurst Fighting Quotations

What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.