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Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Rose
American Activist
Born: Jan 13, 1810
Died: Aug 4, 1892
Life Man Rights Wife Woman You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. Ernestine Rose
God You Hate Unhappy Sick Pleased Making
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? Ernestine Rose
Women Cause Martyr Should Why Her
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
Religion Inculcated Minds Would Atheists Fact Remain Were Children Interesting
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. Ernestine Rose
Freedom Together Exist Cannot Slavery
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
You Man Woman Made Judgment Sickly See Admires She Understand Taste Then Now
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. Ernestine Rose
Rights Matter Nothing Human Rights Books Dead Opinions Came Opposition Human Whom Letters
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
Life You Woman Human Being Earn Faculties Developed Support Suppose Powers She Exercise Human Being Them Grant Her Right
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
Be Kind Law Wife Husband Presume Kind Shall Protect Ready His Provide Subject Affectionate Again Ask Right
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
Character Man Rights Woman Recognized Would Would-Be Folly Detrimental Equal She Were Cease Away Her
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
Man Women Submission Virtue Considered Alike Wrong Blind Itself While Resistance
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
Me Words Wife Will Husband Power Wish Before Clothes Every Other Degradation Had He Feeds Idea Contained Make Said Shelters Provides In Other Words Realize Fully Her
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
You Woman Confession Rude Men Drinking Fighting Humiliating Plea Background Say Would Lies Some Contact Box Ballot Ballot Box Swearing Expose Rough Keeping
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
Sad Life Woman Treat Better Endeavor Nothing Liable Those Some Stubborn Throw Facts Ideal Over Like Know Deal Subject Existence Romance Fancy Sober Realities Mantle Who Ills
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
Men Indeed Married Responsibilities Married Men About Felt Said Burdens Them Much
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
Man Women Few Horizon Could Allowed She Well Matched Occupy Were Intellectual Same Bright Elevated Position
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
Nature Man Woman Cause Could Main Advantages Namely She Pernicious Falsehood Inferior Same Done Being Against Ever Her
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
Life Best People Wife Other Benefit Head Mass Commence Than Hearts Hands Capital Union Right
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. Ernestine Rose
Woman No Reason Against Prejudices Reason Elevation

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