Annie Besant

Annie Besant. British writer, socialist and theosophist, supporter of women's rights, and Irish and Indian self-rule.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

"I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for weakness"
Women's fight will never die💪🏼

[Emily Davison @EmilyWildingDav]

I've been arrested due to defend women suffrage; just again.
I am doing a hunger strike 💪
#Womenpower

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

In July I founded the Central Hindu School for those thounsands of Indian children that can't enjoy education. My heart is with them.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism"

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

I have published a new book, wish you read it!

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

"If this heaven is true, I do not hesitate to say that it is de duty of every human being to reject it utterly and to refuse to enter it"

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

@lewiscarrol1832 Happy Birthday Lewis!

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

Very proud of what I said in that previous year speech.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

Yes, the queen is dead, but finally, after many years of struggle, now India is more likely to be independent.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Bradlaugh and I. I hope you like it.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

This is me and one of my closest friends. We have just finished a book which could be interesting.

[Emmeline Pankhurst @emmelinepank_16]

Today I am founding the Women's Franchise League. We fight to allow woman to vote in local elections

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

I have just matriculated at London University and I go on with my studies in science.

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

Why we should obey men? What law:

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[...] history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.

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Againts the teaches of eternal torture, of the infallibility of the Bible, I leveled all the strength of my brain and I exposed the [...]

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

I reclaim for the freedom of India, I want a NEW INDIA @queenvictoria1_

[Millicent Fawcett @FawcetMillicent]

Non-violent fight 💪

[Annie Besant @Annie_Beasant]

So true