As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold … - Emmeline Pankhurst

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Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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 as long as government is unjust.

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It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

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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.

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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

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[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

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