Emmeline Pankhurst - Quick facts

 

 

 

She was an English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win right to vote.

In 1999, Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back".

Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words".

She died in 1928 and was commemorated two years later with a statue in Victoria Tower Gardens.

Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes -

 

 

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

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

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.

Trust in God - she will provide.

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