Showing posts with label suffrage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suffrage. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Emmeline Pankhurst


I'm currently reading the biography of Emmeline Pankhurst and came across this wonderful photograph of her. She's being arrested after leading a protest to parliament, armed with a rolled resolution for women's suffrage and a few lilies of the valley. What really strikes me about it is, the look on her face, such pride and defiance.
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Wonderful, I hope I always look as proud on my way to vote.