Suffragette

Emmeline Pankhurst:
I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Emmeline Pankhurst:
Deeds, not words.

Inspector Arthur Steed:
Don't bother arresting them. Let their husbands deal with them.

Emmeline Pankhurst:
Never surrender. Never give up the fight.

Maud Watts:
Your mother's name is Maud Watts.

Violet Miller:
You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.

Maud Watts:
We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only thing men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing left!

Inspector Arthur Steed:
And there's nothing left but to stop you.

Maud Watts:
What are you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all.

Maud Watts:
You a suffragette, Mrs. Ellyn?

Edith Ellyn:
Yes, well I consider myself more a soldier, Mrs Watts.

Emmeline Pankhurst:
For fifty years, we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored. Now we have realised that deeds and sacrifice be the order of the day. We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers. Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destinies. We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers. Be militant, each of you in your own way. Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those who can further attack the sacred idle of property, do so! We have been left with no alternative, but to defy this government! If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government, not the bodies of women, that shall be broken! I incite this meeting and all the women in Britain to rebellion! I would rather be a rebel than a slave!

Sonny Watts:
I took you on, Maud. Thought I could straighten you out.

Maud Watts:
What if you don't have to?

Sonny Watts:
You're a mother, Maud. You are a wife. You're my wife, and that's all you're meant to be.

Maud Watts:
What if I can't be that anymore?

Maud Watts:
Dear Inspector Steed. I thought about your offer, and I have to say no. You see, I am a suffragette after all. You told me no one listens to girls like me. Well I can't have that anymore. All my life, I've been respectful, done what men told me. I know better now. I'm worth no more, no less than you. Mrs. Pankhurst said, "If it's right for men to fight for their freedom, then it's right for women to fight for theirs." If the law says I can't see my son, I will fight to change that law. We're both foot soldiers, in our own way. Both fighting for our cause. I won't betray mine. Will you betray yours? If you thought I would, you were wrong about me. Yours sincerely, Maud Watts.

[last lines]

Maud Watts:
Lead on.