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. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

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

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.