Fight for our rights

Dakota 2022-04-20 09:02:10

Once again, I feel that the continuous advancement of history is the performance of the continuous forward extension of the indentation under the gear. This indentation may change its appearance due to the change of gears, but the loess it presses on, the dust it raises, and the direction it points is eternal. A hundred years ago, women demanded the right to vote for themselves in the law and the rights of mothers over their children. The obstacles they encountered, the reproaches, the suppression of their voices, the injustices, deceit, hesitation, and perseverance passed from one person to another in their struggles, these are today, a hundred years later, in another form. form again. This time, we demand equal pay for equal work, and further matriarchy (i.e. reproductive rights), we still demand that the law give us the justice we deserve, and punish those rapes and molesters, those who are actually bright but always carried over with a set of naturalistic rhetoric We want our voices to be freely disseminated on the Internet—its predecessor was newspapers a hundred years ago—the place where the greatest public discourse can be heard, We want to tell the women around us - those who have not yet realized their infinite possibilities - that their future is far richer and more brilliant than they imagined. bright future. These voices are now called feminists, and they are no less impeded than the sticks of a hundred years ago, no more confined than those prisons. I love what Maud says back to the police in the movie: 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 a girl like me. But I can't endure anymore. All of my life are being respected for, done what men told me. I know by now. I worth no more, no less than you. Miss punkhurst said, If it's right for men to fight for their freedom, then it'

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  • Melyna 2022-03-22 09:02:26

    70/100 women have the right to vote, women have custody of their children, rights that seem axiomatic today but required sacrifice and death 100 years ago. So stop feeling that your power to earn your rights is insignificant, and stop laughing at those who are sacrificing for it.

  • Dane 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Just like the slogan of "actions speak louder than words" in the film, this is also a film about "actions", gradually enveloped, transformed, and determined by the perspective of a protagonist who is outside himself, and presented to us in the standard structure of popular drama The struggle and sacrifice of feminist activists at the beginning of the last century.

Suffragette quotes

  • 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 must 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 idol 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: I'm not just that anymore.