Why We Are Militant- Fight for Women's Suffrage

Thesis: Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the women's suffrage movement in England, argues that women need to be militant to gain suffrage because it is the only way to do so.

• Trusting that the vote for women will come through gradual evolution is a naive hope
• The reforms for the extension of men's suffrage in 1832 and 1867 came during a time of violence and rioting. Only violence will accomplish it for women as well.
• Previous attempts to gain women's suffrage the law-abiding way have accomplished nothing.
• Militancy helped revive the Women's suffrage movement to nearly 50 societies.
• We have exhausted every other means of gaining the vote. Violence is now the only option.
• The marriage and divorce laws are a disgrace to humanity, giving men all the power and leaving women to risk their lives to bring children into the world without any parental rights over their future.
• Men feel sympathy for other men who are fighting for freedom and suffrage, but scoff at the idea of women gaining those same rights.
• Men either think women are superhuman or subhuman; either way not deserving of the vote.
• Women are human beings just like men.
• It is frustrating for women when ideas of liberty, fraternity, and equality are not for them.
• They was never a thing worth having that was not worth fighting for.