Ernestine RoseSlavery and freedom cannot exist together.371Life
Ernestine RoseThere is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. ✨ Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's r… ▶361Politics
Ernestine RoseNo! 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 any written authority.365Humanity
Ernestine RoseAgitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.293DeathLife
Ernestine RoseBlind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.294Reflection
Ernestine RoseFor here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle… ▶329Thought
Ernestine RoseCarry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to th… ▶275HumanityPolitics
Ernestine RoseIf you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, … ▶264Hope
Ernestine RoseWhen a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.287Philosophy
Ernestine RoseFrom the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. … ▶288Politics
Ernestine RoseAgain, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at … ▶222LovePoliticsReading
Ernestine RoseAll that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in parti… ▶233HumanityLifePolitics
Ernestine RoseIf they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.289Life
Ernestine RoseI know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who ha… ▶2810LifeLoveSadness
Ernestine RoseEmancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.203Humanity
Ernestine RoseIf God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.182Reflection
Ernestine RoseBut say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping… ▶161Philosophy
Ernestine RoseBut it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize… ▶151PoliticsThought
Ernestine RoseWe have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. ✨ Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). Mistr… ▶228HumanityPoliticsThought
Ernestine RoseDo you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter sa… ▶2310DeathHumanityReading
Ernestine RoseBooks and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ✨ Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). Mistress of herse… ▶132DeathHumanityReading
Ernestine RoseIt is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.139ThoughtTruth
Ernestine RoseI asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.1410Humanity
