"We are here in our efforts to become lawmakers. I have to make my appeal in the old-fashioned way... I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women. I am not only here as a soldier temporarily absent from the field at battle; I am here -- and that, I think, is the strangest part of my coming -- I am here as a person who, according to the law courts of my country, it has been decided, is not a person at all."

Emmeline Pankhurst, 'Freedom or Death' speech, Hartford, Connecticut, November 1913. Delivered on a fundraising tour of the United States while Pankhurst was on bail.