Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. "Freedom or Death." 13 Nov. 1913, Parsons' Theatre, Hartford, CT.
First woman elected to Congress. Women could vote in Montana years before women had the right to vote nationally. Women pioneers were critical contributors to an extremely hard life. Many widows and single women ran farms and ranches, fought raiding Indians, and married pioneer women were necessary to survival.
The Organization's Periodical. The statement was repeated several times in variation between 1890 and 1920. This organization was the national leader of similar organizations in over 20 States. Many notables were involved including Louis D. Brandeis, Francis Parkman and John Lowell.
She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
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.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist. She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". She was widely criticised for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
