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"Freedom or Loss of life" was called by Britain's The Guardian newspaper as one of the top 10 best speeches of the 20th hundred years. In 1913, United kingdom suffragist Emmaline Pankhurst was invited to speak in Hartford, CT, by Mrs. Katharine Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Women's Suffrage Relationship and mother into the future celebrity. Mrs. Pankhurst journeyed to America not to encourage women to battle for the vote ("North american women can do that very well for themselves") but to raise money for legal security costs for her fans who had demolished and sabotaged property. Pankhurst's Women's Friendly and Political Union experienced turn into a militant force, identified no matter what to earn the vote. She expected to be imprisoned again as soon as she went back to Britain. She was. The talk is an excellent exposition of the double standard that permeated the laws of her country. Pankhurst cites modern Russian and China (man) revolutionaries who experienced to holiday resort to militancy to be observed; Sir Edward Carson, an Ulsterman who demanded his fans spill blood because of their cause but who was simply never imprisoned, as she have been; the biased and punishing inheritance and divorce laws and the meager earnings that working women gained; the horrific drive feeding the federal government utilized when the imprisoned suffragists continued hunger strikes. A hundred years later her talk still resounds: what of a great warrior in a just cause.
