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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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
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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.
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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.
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