Quotes by Ernestine Rose - Page 1

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Freedom
Slavery
Slavery Freedom
Together
Cannot
Exist
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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Causes
Martyr
Should
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I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Atheism
Say Anything
Sin
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Women
Elevation
No Reason
Prejudice
Reason
Against
Woman
Prejudices
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If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
God
Atheism
Hate
Sick
Unhappy
Making
Pleased
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What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Equality
Liberty
Rights
What Is Life
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Convince
Take Care
Thieves
Trying
Man Me Care
Thief
Tries
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Book
Human Rights
Letters
Rights
Books
Came
Dead
Opinions
Whom
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Death
Agitate
Agitation
Atheism
Motto
Opposites
Ought
Stagnation
Opposite
Reformer
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Adequate
Character
Law
Mass
Opinion
Powerful
Public Opinion
Tone
All-Powerful
Forming
Hardly
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Horizon
Intellectual
Matched
Allowed
Bright
Elevated
Occupy
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Judgment
Made
Taste
Admires
Man Woman See
Sickly
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Authority
Human Rights
Rights
Self
Two
Self-Evident
Subject
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Atheist
Children
Interesting
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Bondage
Color
Distinction
Emancipation
Human Rights
Party
Recognition
Rights
Sex
Principle
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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 / Abolitionist
Atheists
Inculcated
Minds
Remain
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Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Children
Desirable
Father
Philosophy
Condition
Fathers
Good-Natured
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Blind
Resistance
Submission
Virtue
Alike
Considered
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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!
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Cease
Character
Detrimental
Equal
Folly
Rights
Character Man Woman
Recognized
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Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Married
Responsibility
Burdens
Indeed
Married Men
Responsibilities
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The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Hands
Heart
Mass
People
Life Best Wife
Benefit
Capital
Commence
Hearts
Union
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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 dollar to call her own.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Bitter
Married Life
Poverty
Successful
Suffering
Unsuccessful
Wife
Dollar
Suffers
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If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Differences
Humanity
Husband
Husband And Wife
Voice
Dictate
Favor
Voices
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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 piece of merchandise over to the other.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Cradle
Father
Guardian
Husband
Merchandise
Grave
Piece
Subject
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Eternal
Deprive
Precious
Reward
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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.'
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Banner
Half
One Half
Principles
Slavery
Submission
Suffrage
Universal Suffrage
Carry
Principle
Strike
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In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Children
Father
Mother
Separation
Bringing
Fathers
Generally
How Much
Protecting
Toward
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Luxury
Owing
World
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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 what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Affectionate
Be Kind
Husband
Law
Protect
Ready
Wife
Presume
Provide
Shall
Subject
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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!
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Confession
Contact
Drinking
Fighting
Humiliating
Lying
Rough
Rude
Swearing
Background
Box
Ballot
Ballot Box
Expose
Lies
Plea
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Behalf
Elevation
Human Rights
Humble
Particular
Raised
Rights
Voice
All My Life
Nearly
Powers
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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Men
Causes
Done
Falsehood
Pernicious
Nature Man Woman
Advantages
Inferior
Main
Namely
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But 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 the degradation contained in that idea.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Aggravation
Clothes
Degradation
Husband
Ideas
Contained
Feeds
Fully
In Other Words
Provides
Shelters
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Legal
Men
Giving
Rights
Time Man Political
Accordance
Capacities
Compel
Tastes
High Time
Powers
Sphere
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even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Constitution
Needs
Sacred
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Giving
Hands
Silence
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In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Representation
Spite
Taxation
Tyranny
Namely
Principle
Recognized
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Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Equal
Intellect
Bright
Cultivate
Even Now
Portion
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Freedom
America
Blast
Flower
Growth
Poison
Single
Slavery
Soil
Spring
Thrive
Weed
Again
Allow
Flowers
Fair
Fruits
Germ
Leaves
Noxious
Remain
Seed
Stifle
Wither
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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 ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Sad
Endeavor
Fancy
Liable
Reality
Romance
Sober
Stubborn
Deal
Ideal
Ills
Mantle
Realities
Subject
Throw
Treat
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I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Exercise
Developed
Earn
Faculties
Grant
Human Being
Suppose
Powers
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Evil
Ignorance
Sky
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Fashion
Law
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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Atheism
Atheist
Punishment
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Women
Ideas
Lying
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Home
Atheism
College
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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.
Ernestine Rose / Abolitionist
Book
Letters
Rights
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