A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

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

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.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

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

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.