Sylvia Pankhurst Quotes
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, … vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.
Sylvia Pankhurst, 1882-1960, English Editor, Journalist, Suffragette, The Home Front, 1932
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