Christabel Pankhurst Quotes
As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.
To support the war effort, the most militant suffragettes ceased anti Government militancy. The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacifism. See {621266} for the anti-war factional view.
Christabel Pankhurst, 1880-1958, English Suffragist, Reaction to the start of the First World War, Unshackled
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The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacicism. See {621265} for the pro war factional view.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
Woodrow Wilson had just finished speaking to the convention – see {638532}. This statement was thought be some to be insulting to the President who said he favored the right of women to vote, but did very little if anything to make that happen. Although Shaw was an ordained Methodist Minister, the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to allow her to preach because of her suffrage views.
Although born and educated in the United States, she lived mostly in England and was politically active there.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The editorial was in support of women’s suffrage—the right to vote which at the time women did not have in Britain. Women were very active in protests and demonstrations. Tactics sometimes involved civil disobedience and chaining themselves to public buildings. It was the civil disobedience and disruptions that the newspaper referred to as the “follies and excesses.” In retrospect today, it is amazing how threatened the society felt and how they reacted to the “threat” of females voting. It does however give us a perspective on those contemporary societies which restrict women’s voting rights.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914 she supported the war against Germany. After the war she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.
