"It is either liberty for Korea or we die!" she said.
And in three minutes, beaten, and dragged on the ground by the hair she was thrown into the cell from which she had been taken; to rot and die as far as the Japanese were concerned.
Another girl who had been kept in jail 135 days without even a charge having been preferred against her was released. Her old mother came to meet her and while in Seoul the mother attended an Independence Meeting for women. The whole crowd of women then went to the Police Station and shouted "Mansei"!
The mother was arrested and cruelly beaten in spite of her seventy-five years of age.
When they were through beating her they said, "Now will you refrain from yelling, 'Mansei!'"
"Never!" said this old woman.
Then they took a bar of iron and beat her over the legs until she dropped.
"Now will you refrain from yelling 'Mansei?'"
The old woman was weak, but in a low, painful whisper said, "The next time the women come to yell, if I am able to walk I will be with them!"
Another old woman was brought to prison for yelling "Mansei!" When they asked her why she yelled "Mansei" she answered in a sentence that sums up the entire spirit that is in the woman-heart of Korea.