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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

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I have gone to war too . . . 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.

Source: Courtroom Speech, Jan 1921; In The Fighting Pankhursts, by David Mitchell, 1967.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst, (Jan 18 1882-1960), English suffragist; She launched, with her daughters, the British feminist movement; forerunner of the US version; won women's voting rights, 1918.


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