"Why We Are Militant" by Emmeline Pankhurst

In a speech in the United States, Pankhurst expresses her ideas about women suffrage:

• Britain widen its suffrage to men three times after much rioting and violence
• After women have tried for years to gain suffrage peacefully, they have no more options but to be militant
• the women suffrage movement was almost dead until two women stood up in 1905 and asked a candidate when women would gain the right to vote
• Women must be militant to reach their goals and they are justified because of their the years of intolerance against them
• Women want to change the bad laws but cant without the right to vote
• The divorce and marriage laws are outdated and women need a voice to change them
• It is also and injustice that men receive higher wages than women for the same job
• Men are sympathetic of injustice in other countries so why aren't they sympathetic of the injustice to women in their own countries
• If men were treated the same way as women, they would not stand for it either