I am what you call a hooligan-

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.