Sylvia Pankhurst famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Children #Loss #People
. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Useless #Way #Facts
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Cities #Venice #Water
I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Brother #People #Rich
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Tree #Vigor #Use
Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Children #Creation #Love And Freedom
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Fighting #People #Like You
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Intelligent #Nails #Dresses
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Beautiful #War #Believe
The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Mean #Land #Community

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