"Rare survival of this leaflet issued by the Women's Social and Political Union in which Christabel Pankhurst justified the actions taken by the 'militant suffragists' on the 1st March 1912, when they took part in a mass window-smashing demonstration. 'At last the patience of women is exhausted. They are conscious of intolerable evils and of deep wrongs inflicted upon the poorest and most miserable of their sex. They are determined that nothing shall stand in the way of women's enfranchisement now. The message of the broken pane is that women are determined that the lives of their sisters shall no longer be broken, and that in future those who have to obey the law shall have a voice in saying what that law shall be. Repression cannot break the spirit of liberty. The time has come when, in the interests of the community, a just and reasonable demand must be satisfied and peace secured by the granting of votes for women' (concluding statement). It was said that approximately 150 women smashed windows simultaneously across the capital on the 1st March 1912 and this was only day one of the campaign. The scale and organisation behind such actions was unparalleled, and the likes of such protests led by women, had never been seen before." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 72).