"Nothing has done more to retard the progress of the human race than the exaltation of submission into a high and noble virtue...it may often be expedient to submit; it may even be sometimes be morally right to do so in order to avoid a greater evil; but submission is not inherently beautiful - it is generally cowardly and frequently morally wrong". 

From the 1911 book, Women's Fight for the Vote, written by Fred Pethick-Lawrence, husband of the famous suffragette, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.