As Long As Women Consent To Be

Manchester Is A City Which Has Witnessed A Great Many Stirring Episodes, Especially Of A Political Character. Generally Speaking, Its Citizens Have Been Liberal In Their Sentiments, Defenders Of Free Speech And Liberty Of Opinion.

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.

What Is The Use Of Fighting For A Vote If We Have Not Got A Country To Vote In?

Every Principle Of Liberty Enunciated In Any Civilised Country On Earth, With Very Few Exceptions, Was Intended Entirely For Men, And When Women Tried To Force The Putting Into Practice Of These Principles, For Women, Then They Discovered They Had Come Into A Very, Very Unpleasant Situation Indeed.

I Want To Say To You Who Think Women Cannot Succeed, We Have Brought The Government Of England To This Position, That It Has To Face This Alternative: Either Women Are To Be Killed Or Women Are To Have The Vote.