Christabel Pankhurst Quotes
What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.
Christabel Pankhurst, 1880-1958, English Suffragist, Speech, Carnegie Hall, New York, October 25, 1915
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She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.
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 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.
Referring to new laws that would be necessary after a proposed Declaration of Independence:
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office
None of the other parties had any women candidates. The Communists got a lot of votes from women whose only way they could support the participation of women in Italian politics, was to vote for a Communist candidate. And people who were opposed to non-traditional roles for women then conflated the feminists and the Communists just as had been done in America, England and many other countries and accused all feminists of being communists.
The speaker predicted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, but was off by three years.
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.
