Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was an English suffragist who was one of the early advocate of women's rights. She led British suffragist movement. With her daughter Christabel Pankhurst, she founded a militant Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested several times and jailed too, where she continued her protest and held hunger strikes.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonoured. …Better to die than to live in slavery.

- speech in Petrograd, August 1917

• 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

• There is something that governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property; and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.

- speech (October 17, 1912)

• You have to make more noise than anybody else; you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else; you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else; in fact, you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

- speech (November 13, 1913)

Max Planck