Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes
If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearst's International Library Co., 1914.
He was killed In the Spanish Civil War.
The city he represented had, under his leadership, declared itself a nuclear-free zone, protested apartheid in front of the South African embassy in Washington, fought for rent-control during a period of soaring rents, and became known as "the Berkeley of the East":
In August 1819 there was a reform political rally in St. Peter’s Field of Manchester. The authorities wanting to censor the reform contents sent the police to break up the meeting. The police killed 11 people and wounded hundreds more in what became known as the “Peterloo Massacre”. Carlile, who publicly condemned the massacre, was one of the heroes of freedom of the press. He was jailed frequently for publishing anti government or anti Church of England criticisms, as were his wife and sister. The government grew so desperate trying to censor his publications that they placed a high minimum price on the sale of all newspapers assuring that the average citizen could not afford to buy the “seditious and blasphemous material.” In addition to press freedom he was an early reformer for birth control, religious freedom, women's suffrage and rights (which he called for in the 1820s), and against child labor.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
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.
