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Emmeline Pankhurst byla britská politická aktivistka.

Pocházela ze zámožné rodiny, se kterou se později rozešla. Provdala se za právníka, který byl téměř tak starý jako její otec. Podporovala jeho politické ambice. Po jeho smrti byla nucena prodat dům, knihy a obrazy a najmout si malý domek v Nelsonově ulici v Manchesteru.

Roku 1903 založila organizaci WSPU. Sídlo organizace bylo roku 1906 přeneseno do Londýna. Organizace požadující volební právo žen se postupně radikalizovala. V březnu roku 1912 členky organizace vytloukly výkladní skříně v celém centru Londýna. Emmeline Pankhurst byla za svoji činnost několikrát uvězněna. Po vypuknutí války WSPU vyhlásila příměří a Emmeline Pankhurst s dcerou Christabel začala podporovat vládu. Po válce si vydělávala jako profesionální řečnice v Kanadě.

Roku 1928 kandidovala za konzervativní stranu, ale zradilo ji zdraví. Téhož roku zemřela.

✵ 15. červenec 1858 – 14. červen 1928
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Emmeline Pankhurst: Citáty anglicky

“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”

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Emmeline Pankhurst kniha My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), p. 129, Hearst's International Library.

“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors … bronchitis was epidemic among them most of the time … I found that there were pregnant women in that workhouse, scrubbing floors, doing the hardest kind of work, almost until their babies came into the world … Of course the babies are very badly protected … These poor, unprotected mothers and their babies I am sure were potent factors in my education as a militant.”

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Emmeline Pankhurst kniha My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), pp. 25–28.

“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”

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Emmeline Pankhurst kniha My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), Ch 1

“We women have presented larger petitions in support of our enfranchisement than were ever presented for any other reform; we have succeeded in holding greater public meetings than men have ever held for any reform, in spite of the difficulty which women have in throwing off their natural diffidence, that desire to escape publicity which we have inherited from generations of our foremothers. We have broken through that. We have faced hostile mobs at street corners, because we were told that we could not have that representation for our taxes that men have won unless we converted the whole of the country to our side. Because we have done this, we have been misrepresented, we have been ridiculed, we have had contempt poured upon us, and the ignorant mob have been incited to offer us violence, which we have faced unarmed and unprotected by the safeguards which Cabinet Ministers enjoy. We have been driven to do this; we are determined to go on with this agitation because we feel in honour bound. Just as it was the duty of your forefathers, it is our duty to make the world a better place for women than it is to-day.”

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Emmeline Pankhurst kniha My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), Book II, Ch. 3

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