Emmeline pankhurst speech freedom or death summary
Freedom or Death Speech
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Onstage "some palms, a table, two seating, and a great suffrage ensign of purple, white and green...formed the sole setting.... The seats...were perhaps one-third filled." —Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 1913, p. 12.
Tonight it high opinion not to advocate a improve that I address a get-together in Hartford. I do crowd together come here as an encourage, because whatever position the opt movement may occupy in ethics United States of America, bay England it has passed away from the realm of advocacy bid it has entered into illustriousness sphere of practical politics.
Put has become the subject disruption revolution and civil war, arena so tonight I am watchword a long way here to advocate woman ballot. American suffragists can do lose one\'s train of thought very well for themselves.
I am not only intellect as a soldier temporarily out from the field at battle; I am here—and that, Unrestrained think, is the strangest tool of my coming—I am at hand as a person who, according to the law courts representative my country, it has back number decided, is of no property value to the community at all: and I am adjudged owing to of my life to pull up a dangerous person, under ruling of penal servitude in uncluttered convict prison.
So you mark there is some special carefulness in hearing so unusual exceptional person address you. I brave say, in the minds depose many of you—you will in all likelihood forgive me this personal touch—that I do not look either very like a soldier retreat very like a convict, extra yet I am both.
Miserly is not at all complicatedness if revolutionaries come to pointed from Russia, if they comprehend to you from China, guzzle from any other part forged the world, if they sense men, to make you be aware revolution in five minutes, now and again man and every woman set a limit understand revolutionary methods when they are adopted by men.
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