I Am What You Call A Hooligan-

...the Government Must Not Think That They Can Stop This Agitation. It Will Go On...we Are Here Not Because We Are Law-breakers; We Are Here In Out Efforts To Become Law-makers.

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.

One Baby Is A Patient Baby, And Waits Indefinitely Until Its Mother Is Ready To Feed It. The Other Baby Is An Impatient Baby And Cries Lustily, Screams And Kicks And Makes Everybody Unpleasant Until It Is Fed. Well, We Know Perfectly Well Which Baby Is Attended To First. That Is The Whole History Of Politics.

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.

I Thought I Had Been A Suffragist Before I Became A Poor Law Guardian, But Now I Began To Think About The Vote In Women's Hands Not Only As A Right But As A Desperate Necessity.