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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.
— My Own Story (1914)
Emmeline Pankhurst
English suffragist
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Lived 1858–1928, aged 70United Kingdom
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She turned the fight for women's suffrage into a war: smashed windows, hunger strikes, arson, forced feedings. The tactics were condemned as too extreme, but in 1918 British women voted.
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Born in Manchester in 1858 to politically active parents, Pankhurst entered the suffrage movement at sixteen and spent years in moderate advocacy, founding the Women's Franchise League and working as a Poor Law Guardian where workhouse conditions shook her. In 1903 she founded the Women's Social and Political Union, an all-women group committed to "deeds, not words" — physical confrontations, window-smashing, assaults on police. She and her daughters endured prison, hunger strikes, force-feedings. The WSPU escalated to bombings and arson, splintering the movement; in 1913 Pankhurst exiled her…
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears.
— My Own Story (1914)
Emmeline Pankhurst
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The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes.
— My Own Story (1914)
Emmeline Pankhurst
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The education of the English boy, then as now, was considered a much more serious matter than the education of the English boy's sister.
— My Own Story (1914)
Emmeline Pankhurst
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[O]ne night when I lay in my little bed waiting for sleep to overtake me.
— My Own Story (1914)
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