American - Activist | January 13, 1810 - August 4, 1892
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Ernestine Rose
ChildrenReligionInterestingMinds
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
RewardDoneDutyKnowingSheHer
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 weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
GrowthFreedomSpringFlowersSeed
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
GodSinSayAnythingHeAsked
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
LifeMottoDeathOppositeStagnation
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.
FreedomAuthorityHumanNeedRights
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
OpinionsLettersNothingMatterDead
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 in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
LifeHumbleWomanVoiceMy LifeYou
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!
CharacterWomanManSheEqualHer
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 in man.
WomenManBlindWrongVirtueAlike
But 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 woman in the background!
MenWomanFightingYouSayRude
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
WomanManYouNowUnderstandShe
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Ernestine Rose quotes