Tea parties, heated debates,
turned to fliers,
passed quickly
like men's laws and legislation.
It is a matter of dignity
when a woman works hard,
to earn half that of a man.

When a female voice calls for the vote,
women look up from washing
the dishes, the floor,
Head and backbone like steel,
they march out their doors.
Suffragettes are born

And die.
All the King's horses
and all the King's men,
could not put Emily Davison
together again.

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Amen sister

Love this one

So do I. Thank you

that is really cool

Wonderful writ awesome thanks GF️️️️️️️️️Coldersky minus the halo

Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette who lost her life through injuries sustained falling under the King’s horse on Derby Day in June 1913, it is important to reflect on her role in the women’s campaign for the right to vote, and her daring approach in attempting to achieve this goal.
The anniversary of her death on 8 June 2017 coincided with the general election and it was a timely moment to reflect on Emily’s determination to obtain the franchise for women. Now, over 100 years later, two UK female Prime Ministers have attained the highest office in politics, yet it seems not so long ago that Emily and her other suffragette colleagues were fighting for something much simpler, merely for a democratic voice in a society which expected women to pay taxes but denied them even the most basic of political representation.

Emily, like other women of her time, faced discrimination from the outset where she attained a university education but was not allowed to formally graduate like her male counterparts. Emily joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906. She had worked as a teacher but gave this up in 1909 to become a full time and unpaid suffragette, never actually being remunerated for her efforts. Some have argued that this was because Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, the force behind the WSPU, held tight reigns on the strategy of the suffragette movement and Emily’s physical tactics were not universally welcome within the organisation.

It did not take Emily long to engage in direct action for the suffragettes, such as breaking windows, setting fire to post boxes and causing public disturbances. In 1909 she faced one of her toughest stints in prison when she was incarcerated in Manchester’s Strangeways prison and endured a month’s hard labour for throwing rocks at the carriage of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George. Like other suffragettes who faced prison, she went on hunger strike and faced the horrors of force feeding. Emily’s misdemeanours in the name of the suffrage campaign caused increasing friction between her and the Pankhursts, who saw her as a loose cannon in an otherwise tightly run campaign. In Parliament a plaque was placed by Tony Benn MP in 1991 acknowledging the role of Emily in the fight for the women’s franchise, since on the evening of the 1911 census she hid in a broom cupboard so that she could record her address as the ‘House of Commons’ in a bid to symbolise the same political rights as men.

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She was English. Each country has had their own movement and there surely will be more women's movements to come, some happening now around the globe..

Thanks Wind the Us had Mother Jones ️️
She was a spitfire she was awesome freedom fighter Woohoo Coldersky minus the halo

I am so in awe of the Freedom Fighters. What courage they had!!!

Awesome! With meaning & heartfelt.

Touching tribute to Emily Davison, Ladywind

Just one of many of my heroines

As women, we will take no more