| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43556 |
| QUOTATION: | ...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emmeline Pankhurst (18581928), British suffragist and politician. My Own Story, book 3, ch. 4 (1914).
Pankhurst used militant techniques in her agitation for woman suffrage, including hunger strikes and deliberate provocation of arrest and imprisonment. |
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