Ernestine Rose Quotes, Thoughts and Images

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of 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.

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

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

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

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.