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Emmeline Pankhurst

Freedom or death

Freedom or Death is a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst delivered at Hartford, Connecticut — November 13, 1913. It was later transcribed and issued as a pamphlet. The speech was dedicated to the issues of suffrage movement.
53 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
Good Press
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Quotes

  • Dariahas quoted4 years ago
    It is only people who feel an intolerable sense of oppression who would adopt a means of that kind. I know of no people who did it before us except revolutionaries in Russia - who adopted the hunger strike against intolerable prison conditions.
  • Dariahas quoted4 years ago
    sympathy is a very unsatisfactory thing if it is not practical sympathy
  • Dariahas quoted4 years ago
    Why should we alienate the sympathy of the shopkeepers? Well, there is the other side of the question, gentlemen - why should the shopkeepers alienate the sympathy of their customers by refusing to help them to get political power, some power to make the condition of the woman who helps to earn the shopkeepers money by serving in his shop, easier than it is at the present time? Those women broke shopkeepers' windows, and what was the situation? Just at the beginning of the winter season when all the new winter hats and coats were being shown, the shopkeepers had to barricade all their windows with wood and nobody could see the new winter fashions. Well, there again is an impossible situation. The shopkeeper cannot afford to quarrel with his customers, and we have today far more practical sympathy amongst the shopkeepers of London than we ever had when we were quiet, gentle, ladylike suffragists asking nicely for a vote.
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