Ernestine Rose Quotes

• 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 one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

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  Book, Rights, Letters

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• What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

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  Equality, Rights, Liberty

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

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  Hands, Giving, Silence

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• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

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  Sex, Party, Rights

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• Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

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  Atheist, Punishment, Atheism

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

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  Atheist, Children, Interesting

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• Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

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  Book, Rights, Letters

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

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  Say Anything, Atheism, Sin

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• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

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  Opposites, Atheism, Agitation

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• Si permitís que un solo germen, una sola semilla de esclavitud permanezca en el suelo de América... ese germen brotará, esa hierba nociva prosperará, y de nuevo sofocará el crecimiento, marchitará las hojas, marchitará las flores y envenenará los hermosos frutos de la libertad.

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  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• 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 any written authority.

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  Rights, Self, Two

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• Si Dios se complace en hacerte enfermo e infeliz, odio a Dios.

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  Hate, Sick, Atheism

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• There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

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  Women, Prejudice, Reason

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• Desde la cuna hasta la tumba está sometida al poder y al control del hombre. Padre, tutor o marido, uno la entrega al otro como si fuera una mercancía.

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  Marido, Padre, Hombres

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

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  Men, Trying, Thieves

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

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  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

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  Men, Rights, Giving

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

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  Ignorance, Sky, Evil

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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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 as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

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  Women, Lying, Ideas

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.

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  Home, College, Atheism

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• 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 Submission and Slavery to the other.'

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  Principles, Half, Slavery

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

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  Luxury, World, Owing

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• Sé que algunos se esfuerzan por arrojar el manto del romanticismo sobre el tema y tratar a la mujer como una existencia ideal, no expuesta a los males de la vida. Que se ocupen de fantasías quienes no tengan nada mejor que hacer; nosotros tenemos que ocuparnos de realidades sobrias y tristes, de hechos obstinados.

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  Reality, Romance, Stubborn

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

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  Men, Intellectual, Horizon

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). "Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader", The Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

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  Character, Men, Rights

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