We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Read My Own Story at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Protest Political progress Progress Politics

Author

Emmeline Pankhurst

Source

My Own Story

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Suffragist Women's rights activist Activist

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

Current Citation

Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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Topic
Taking a different path Following the crowd

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Road Not Taken
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1916 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

Another quote about Politics

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Bill Miller

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Topic
Politics
Speaker
Bill Miller
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1991 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Miller, Bill. Quoted in Dallas Morning News. 13 Oct. 1991.

Another quote from 1914

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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Topic
Home

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Death of the Hired Man
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.