I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Next quotes

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I c

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet f

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combat

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civ

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

  My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of r

• Mickalene Thomas:

  I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't nec

• Mickalene Thomas:

  I've always been interested in masking, layering, dressing up and beautifying yourself and what tha

• Mickalene Thomas:

  I'm really interested in women, particularly the kind of black woman who has overcome obstacles in