English - Activist | July 15, 1858 - June 14, 1928
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
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Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.
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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
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From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
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