Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Louise Rosewas an atheist feminist, individualist feminist, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth13 January 1810
CountryUnited States of America
needs sacred constitution
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.
say-anything sin ifs
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
fashion rights law
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...
character men rights
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!
causes should martyr
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
men intellectual meteors
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
men taste made
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.
atheist children interesting
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
book rights letters
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
equality rights liberty
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
hands giving silence
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 ...
self two rights
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.
weed spring flower
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.
sex party rights
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.