If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

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Emmeline Pankhurst was a 19th-century British suffragette. Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it
  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination

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