Occupation: Activist Birth: July 15, 1858 Death: June 14, 1928
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall ….
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress..
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….
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out e….
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than ….
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it..
As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer….
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart..
If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence..
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half..
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent..
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics..
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words..
Trust in God - she will provide..
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screa….
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery..
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedo….
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 liberti….
I am what you call a hooligan-.
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women politic….
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 establish….