“My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all.”
~Sylvia Pankhurst

English feminist, socialist activist, and writer Sylvia Pankhurst was born on this day in 1882