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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Born in Moss Side · Died 1928 in Hampstead
writer · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Notable works: My Own Story
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- My Own Story
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My own story
From Project Gutenberg e-text #34856 (public domain in the USA).
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
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.