very touching

Gabe 2022-08-23 21:05:41

A moving story telling how women struggle to fight for the right to vote.
Excluding the boring documentary style, the film shows the passionate and faithful characters of this movement.
They really devoted their entire lives to this.
But why such a woman must choose to be lonely all her life.

My favorite quotes:

Dr. White: "Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry, an American hero.
District commissioner: Apples and oranges.
Dr. White: In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity.
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Lucy Burns: To pay the fine would be admitting guilt. We have not broken a law. not one dollar!
resounding conscience.
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Senator Leighton: I don't know a judge in this district that will give you custody right now.
Emily Leighton: You won't take my children.
Senator Leighton: And how are you going to stop me? Can you afford an attorney?
Emily Leighton: An attorney? To prove what? That I'm their mother? What will YOUR judge say? That this is YOUR house and YOUR children? What am I to you, Tom, in your house? chattel? this is how you punish me? I am their mother! They are not your children to take!
the mother has a status of the outbreak.
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Iron Jawed Angels quotes

  • Parade Heckler #1: [taunting the women marchers] Get off the streets! Go home to your mothers!

    Woman in Parade: My mother is here!

  • Ida Wells-Barnett: I'm told you expect Negro women to march in a separate unit. At the back.

    Alice Paul: Southern Suffrage groups threatened to withdraw...

    Ida Wells-Barnett: Are the ladies afraid we'll march out of step? Call their bluff.

    Alice Paul: We can't afford to lose their support. Not with the Democrats in office.

    Ida Wells-Barnett: Who's we? Women? Or just white women?

    Lucy Burns: Now wait a minute...

    Alice Paul: We have one agenda. Suffrage. Add another issue...

    Ida Wells-Barnett: If we don't stand up now, what happens to Negro women when you finally get the vote? They'll keep us out of the polling places any way they can.

    Alice Paul: Other colored groups have agreed to the compromise.

    Lucy Burns: Not perfect, but we've got to be practical.

    Ida Wells-Barnett: Dress up prejudice and call it politics? I expected more from a Quaker. I'll march with my peers, or not at all.