Suffragette (2015)
Meryl Streep: Emmeline Pankhurst
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Emmeline Pankhurst : For fifty years, we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored. Now we have realised that deeds and sacrifice must be the order of the day. We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers. Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destinies. We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers. Be militant, each of you in your own way. Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those who can further attack the sacred idol of property, do so! We have been left with no alternative, but to defy this government! If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government, not the bodies of women, that shall be broken! I incite this meeting and all the women in Britain to rebellion! I would rather be a rebel than a slave!
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Emmeline Pankhurst : Never surrender. Never give up the fight.
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Emmeline Pankhurst : Deeds, not words.
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Emmeline Pankhurst : We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers.
