The Suffragettes Quotes

“Well, they little know what women are. Women are slow to rouse, but once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way.”
― Various, The Suffragettes

“We are showing them that government does not rest upon force at all; it rests upon consent. As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they can be, but if directly women say : 'We withhold our consent, we will not be governed any longer so long as the government is unjust.' Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman.”
― Various, The Suffragettes

“It always has been so. The grievances of those who have got power, commands a great deal of attention; but the wrongs and the grievances of those people who have no power at all are apt to be absolutely ignored. That is the history of humanity right from the beginning.”
― Various, The Suffragettes

“It was not militant at all, except that it provoked militancy on the part of those who were opposed to it.”
― Various, The Suffragettes

“We women, in trying to make our case clear, always have to make as part of our argument, and urge upon men in our audience the fact - a very simple fact - that women are human beings.”
― Various, The Suffragettes