Emmeline Pankhurst Hartford Speech November 1913 | Suffragettes and Votes for Women
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- On 13 November 1913 Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union, delivered this speech in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mrs Pankhurst was in the United States while on temporary release under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913, more commonly known as the Cat and Mouse Act.
She was in the United States to raise money for the WSPU and drew parallels between the struggle of the Suffragettes and the causes of the American War of Independence.
Suitable for GCSE and A Level History.
I wrote it down! Hope it helps, because it surely helped me!
I am here, as a soldier, who has temporarily left the field of battle, in order to explain what civil war is like, when civil war is waged by women.
Suppose the men of Hartford had a grievance and they’d laid that grievance before their legislature and the legislature obstinately refused to listen to them or to remove their grievance. What would be the proper and constitutional and practical way of getting their grievance removed? Well, it is perfectly obvious at the next general election, the men of Hartford would turn out that legislature and elect a new one. But that the men of Hartford imagined that they were not in the position of being voters at all, that they were governed without their consent being obtained; that the legislature turned an absolutely deaf ear to their demands. What would the men of Hartford do then? They couldn’t vote the legislature out. They would have to make a choice of two evils. They would either have to submit indefinitely to an unjust state of affairs or they would have to rise up. Your forefathers decided that they must have representation to taxation, many, many years ago when they felt they couldn’t wait any longer, when they laid all the arguments before an obstinate British government that they could think of, when every other means had failed, they began by the tea party at Boston and they went on until they had won the independence of the United States of America.
We are called militant, and we are quite willing to accept the name. We are determined to press this question that the enfranchisement of women to the point where we are no longer to be ignored by the politicians. You have to make more noise than anybody else. You have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else. You have to fill all the papers, more than anybody else.
We wear no mark we belong to every class; we permeate every class of the community from the highest to lowest. And so, you see, in the women’s civil war it is absolutely impossible to deal with it. You cannot locate it, and you cannot stop it.
We have brought the government of England to this position but, it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote. You won your freedom in America when you had the revolution, by bloodshed, by sacrificing human life. You won the civil war by the sacrifice of human life when you decided to emancipate the slaves.
Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed, it shall be ours. We won’t do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom, or giving us death.
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my goodness, what an amazing speech. Beautifully recreated.
The suffragettes set nail bombs in train stations
Lol
So proud of my foremothers 🙏 Life is not worth living without freedom. Thank you 💖
Proud of terrorists. Says it all really
Thank you British
This is such a powerful speech with much emotion and thought. *claps*
I'm just here cus of Homework HOMEWORK GANG BOIS
same this is for history aha
same for drama
Same for English
Speechhh
Same here
This actress delivers this speech so well
For those of you here for schoolwork:
I’m here because of the three L’s of life.
That is three important things about living life:
Loving
Laughing
Learning
You can forget what year the war of 1912 was fought.
You can forget how to add, or how to spell, but no matter
how old you get; don’t you ever forget about the three L’s
Never too old to Love.
Never too old to Laugh.
Never too old to Learn.
this is one of the most amazing speeches i've ever heard
This is such a good speech. 😮
The speech is amazing, I ❤ it
Who is this wonderful British actress who gives the speech with such fervor?
Bryonie Pritchard
I had to watch this in school so thanks 🙏
You have left it to women in your land, the men of all civilised countries have left it to women, to work out their own salvation. That is the way in which we women of England are doing. Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours; we won’t do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.
We won’t forget
"Freedom Or Death, the two of them are twins. Freedom or Death, our friend is but one of them!"
powerful speech.
what is the song used in the background?
Really good speech
pls inform me about the background music used
Very goodddd
Mam could you please make a video of this speech written
Jsuis entrain de faire un cours d’anglais c’est bien chiant
@@tegeka201 même moi
dont stay in america you border hopper
Man I’m just here for the homework
Too bad this is a heavily redacted version of the speech. The whole thing is worth hearing. But for visual interest, it would require a bigger production.
Can I be informed of this video’s background music？thx a lot.
Original speech does not include the word "slaves".
😍🙏
So she has British accent. Great.
The courage of all those women in Britain who wouldn't give up the fight to correct a terrible injustice - particularly in the face of such violent and often cruel opposition - never ceases to amaze me. I have recorded dome the stories of suffragists and suffragettes here: ruclips.net/video/-Rimy8IiMJ8/видео.html
Whats up Noah
Love Jihad & Women's Rights
Are people who are fighting against Love Jihaad advocating only a certain people should marry only certain people? No.
Any person is free to marry whoever HE/SHE is willing to marry. It's a free World.
But the problem here is, A Muslim girl marrying a Hindu boy, or a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl - The law system in India is such that Muslims are given an exception to enjoy the personal laws & these personal laws are in so many respects are Anti Hindu, they have not had the kind of reforms took place in so far as that of Hindu laws are concerned.
This puts all the Non - Muslim women who choose to marry a Muslim - boy at a disadvantage. So Non Muslim girl if chooses to marry whether out of intention/fraudulence, A Muslim boy, she will loose the right to, (i) Property, the way she would had enjoyed if she were not married a Muslim boy, (ii) She will loose right to divorce, (iii) She will loose right to Inheritance, Succession etc. in ways she would enjoy if she has not married a Muslim boy.....
et merce ca va me servir en francais
i didnt undersand
2:14-2:43
This is so dead y tf do I have to do this for my English stg
Dan Porter that's really rude dude this was a big important change for women show a little compassion
Maryam Zainalabdeen they were terrorists and we don’t learn abt that in school. It’s all about how the men were so terrible and how the women were brave smh
@@dpmp138 you mean they had to fight for human rights? Sure defo their fault
@@ceris6048 These bastards shamed men into war and were supposed to revere them. My great grandfather would be alive today if not for these women who shamed and forced into war. It would be his 86th birthday if not for these sick clowns. And boys are taught to idolise these clowns? This is injustice in itself. They should be branded terrorists for shaming and forcing men into war. My grandmother told me all about these sick women
Probably because Pankhurst led the fight for women to vote in the UK, which is pretty damn important, don't you think?? Just that single issue, but the Suffragette movement was about more than that. The world was vastly different then
she was a warmonger who disowned her 2nd child Sylvia who opposed wwI
Carolina Tamayo, Took me ages to spell the name,, Read your history Tamayo ,then you will be able to give a understandable reply ..... .....................................
An....not a, knob.
Dear Amy,
I was going to trash your comments, but thinking back to my father who was wounded in the great war 1914/18 not I must say not visually but internally these women of there ilk obtained white feathers and if the person eligible for call to arms showed no sign of external injury they forced a white feather in his button hole assuming he had not been in the war ,if he had got a coat ...that is to put a feather in it .. This was intolerable and the War office introduced a Silver war badge (SWB),please look it up !! This was to indicate to the ignorant females that this particular gentleman did indeed serve his country..This was the legacy brought about by the freedom movement of Pankhurst and her followers.. My father had a SWB and showed no sign of external injury and if the War office known as at that time had not brought out the Silver war badge ,I suspect my father who I say again served nearly the whole time would have had a white feather placed in his lapel... this was after serving through up to two months of the hostilities ending.. He was never the same again and this was brought about by the Pankhurst movement and followers, I don't look for gold stars but I am sure I could write a book on the subject..but I leave it on that note but you understand my feeling emanate from this true life experience... Thank you Geoffrey ..
I understand you are talking about the White Feather Movement, I have also done extensive research into this. As I said before, I don't agree with everything they did, so please open your mind and understand that I am not saying everything was right. However, it is important, in my mind, for there to be equality in the world. Without us being treated equally, there is no justice, no freedom of speech (which is exactly what we're doing right now!) and people wouldn't be listened to. I appreciate your comments and your views, just as I hope you will value mine and consider that, women have a better (although not quite equal!) quality of life these days with more opportunities to be the people they want to be, rather than the people they 'had' to be, with no say in the matter.
aii mandem thinks there are professional teachers bruv mans here for h/w
@@tldn-ld8mf Learn ENGLISH before you attempt a reply....I and others would not understand either
@@geoffreypowell9220 man ses learn english dont give a shit bout u but other did undestood ineed
@@AmyMcIntosh92 I totally agree with you There are still societall fiat based on gender but we do enjoy few benefits like we are not expected to drafted/ conscripted etc. Besides that we live in pretty much equal society
NIQUE L'OM !!
this is shit but i gotta watch it for school
ahah same
Have you grown up enough yet, to realise and acknowledge the effect that Emmeline Pankhurst has had on women, in the UK at least. You wouldn't have a vote or a voice if it wasn't for this woman. Sure, maybe someone else would have come along, but thanks to EP, they didn't need to... And you, and all the women before and after you owe a debt of gratitude to her.
Amy McIntosh,
The Tax payer pays millions to educate people like you, and you cannot speak/write queens English... I refer to "" Knob "" you replied ,I am 79 yrs old and it is the sort of de-generate answer I would expect from your generation...If you find it difficult to express yourself I will gladly give you lessons...Emily Pankhurst was a wealthy person and was only interested in her class like Margaret Thatcher.. She had an agenda to further her own ambitions and strengthen her class ...Only...She was not interested in women being in parliament and getting the vote.. I say again women wives and partners as it is known today should be at home making the tea and putting the slippers out for the bread winner..,Please dont reply until you have learnt English and read history...
Dear Mr. Powell,
As you have requested that I 'speak the Queen's English', I will do so, and clarify a few things as I go.
Firstly, I am a very well educated young woman, I went to a grammar school, gained straight A*s in my GCSEs and A levels as well as receiving a first class honours degree at a Russell Group University. Furthermore, I am also a teacher, with outstanding QTS (which, in case you're unsure, stands for Qualified Teacher Status.)
I also thought I would point out that perhaps it is I, who should be teaching you:- you refer to this woman as 'Emily Pankhurst'... her actual name is 'EMMELINE Pankhurst, I suggest it is you who takes the time to read history. I am not saying I completely agree with everything she did to achieve women's suffrage, I agree that she had some very radical tactics. Nonetheless, she is without a doubt one of the most important women in history as she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back. I have completed extensive research into this woman's life, writing a play about her life as we speak.
I am, and I am sure other women will agree, highly offended by your comments about women being merely 'household machines'. I would like to confirm that I am actually the bread winner of my household and I owe this to suffragettes like Mrs. Pankhurst who helped us achieve the vote and made the quality of our lives better. It is people like you who should perhaps reconsider their view on the matter.
I would also like to add that the reason I simply replied with the derogatory term, 'knob', was because I believed someone with such a narrow-minded, chauvinistic and, forgive me, STUPID opinion about women's rights, would not be able to understand anything more intelligent than that. I therefore hope that this reply will not be too difficult for you to understand.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss. McIntosh
Geoffrey, mate! Careful, your sexism is showing. That attitude died many decades ago, and good riddance to it. A woman should be free to choose whatever she wants to do, not be expected to fetch my slippers and cup of tea .
Carolin Trampolino..
Cannot get my head around your name or comment ,You are still wet behind the ears so to speak...Place a valid English comment I and others may understand !!! Thank you..
Dear Amy,
I respect your views but the women I meet don't even say thank you for holding a door open, You will never get equality whatever avenue you take in life , There will never be a utopia where all and everyone is equal so you are on a lost cause Amy, sorry That does not say men are better indeed we needed women in munitions and the RAF which I served 6 yrs and not forgetting the women pilots that ferried aircraft from factories to the airfields ,It is the demonstration of power and arrogance that gets the men furious ,they seem to have an answer to everything... Then in this age you get disgusting language, Look at Jeremy Kyle programme , They cannot discuss without foul language , Who can respect people like that ..No I am no generalising but I have witnessed in front of children the foulest of language..This most likely would disgust Emmeline Pankhurst , Surely she lacked wisdom of the outcome of giving women so much power, We are paying dearly for this with the late Thatcher years.. And finally I have been married 54 yrs and have grown ups who still respect me and my wife...Geoffrey.
That's not to say all women are the same!!! Jeez, anyone else feel sorry for his wife?!
You are using phases that are NOT English i/e Jeez.. and you say you are a teacher , If you can read this I see on cars thank a teacher... it should read If you CANNOT read this , thank a teacher.. Nuff said Bye...
@@geoffreypowell9220 just to clarify, that comment wasn't from me. I'm the teacher! I can't speak for the other user as I don't know their profession!
But, dear sir, all women are not the same...you may have met women who are mean...but that's not to say that all the women living in this wide world is the same...if 'mean' women exists...then 'respectable' women also exists....it's good that you are married now....I hope that your wife is as loving as my father's wife,i.e, my mother...who's flawless...
@@geoffreypowell9220 criticizing for saying, "Jeez," and proceeds to say, "Nuff said," are you trolling or are you truly that dense?
Some people open there mouths before engaging the brain, You must be careful when you make these High Faluting comments , You don't know who you are addressing , I was a Bomb disposal officer in the second world war, I don't believe I was a hero ,just doing a job so you cand have free speech... to much I think,,, I apologise if you are a war veteran ... Any more replies will go in the trash box.. THINK in FUTURE and have a little respect ...On second thoughts I suspect you are from one of these chocolate box so called universities that were polytechnics ... and a Whiz kid of sorts..
Emmm have a bit of respect urself 🫤