Frases de Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst, nascida Emmeline Goulden, foi uma das fundadoras do movimento britânico do sufragismo. O nome da "Sra. Pankhurst", mais do que qualquer outro, está associado com a luta pelo direito de voto para mulheres de classe média alta no período imediatamente antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial.

Em 1879 casou com Richard Marsden Pankhurst, um advogado. O Sr. Pankhurst era já um apoiante do movimento das sufragistas, e tinha sido o autor da legislação Married Women's Property Acts , de 1870 e 1882. Em 1889, a Sra. Pankhurst fundou a Liga do Franchise das mulheres. A campanha não seria interrompida pela morte do marido em 1898. Em 1903 fundou a melhor conhecida Women's Social and Political Union , um movimento militante cujos membros incluíramm a famosa Annie Kenney, a "mártir" do sufragismo; Emily Davison e a compositora Dame Ethel Smyth. Foi juntada no movimento por suas filhas, Christabel e Sylvia, ambas fariam uma contribuição substancial à campanha em maneiras diferentes.

As tácticas da Sra. Pankhurst para atrair a atenção ao movimento tiveram como resultado o emprisionamento por diversas vezes, mas por causa de seu perfil elevado, não passou as mesmos privações como outras colegas sufragistas . A liderança da campanha não agradou a todos, e houve separatismo dentro do movimento em consequência. A autobiografia, Minha própria história, foi publicado em 1914. Morreu em 1928, tendo atingido a maior de seus objetivos: o direito de voto para as mulheres no Reino Unido.

Em 1999, a revista Time considerou-a uma das 100 pessoas mais influentes do século XX, afirmando: "ela moldou a ideia da mulher do nosso tempo e criou um novo padrão para a sociedade para o qual não havia retorno". Wikipedia

✵ 15. Julho 1858 – 14. Junho 1928

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Emmeline Pankhurst: Frases em inglês

“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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro My Own Story

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