Ernestine Rose Quotes

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• For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
• There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a…
• I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the…
• Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some…
• No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of…
• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
• Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
• If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious…
• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
• Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no…
• Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as…
• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
• All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights…
• I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
• If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
• When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
• Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But…
• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and…

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