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Ernestine Rose Biography

Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) was a Jewish suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker. Her career spanned from the 1830s - 1870s, making her a contemporary to the much more widely celebrated suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Largely forgotten in contemporary discussions of the American women's rights movement, she was one of its major intellectual forces in nineteenth-century America. Her relationship with Judaism is a debated motivation for her advocacy.

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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.

Breaking, Fashion, Rights, Voice, Women

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.

Giving, High, Man, Men, Rights, Sphere

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

Allowed, Horizon, Intellectual, Matched, Men, Women

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

Color, Party, Rights, Sect, Sex

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?

Causes, Done, Falsehood, Inferior, Men

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.

Enough, Luxury, Misery, Owing, Ten, World

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.

Amended, Constitution, Improved, Needs, Ought, Sacred

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.

Children, Desirable, Father, Fathers, Like, Philosophy

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

Cause, Causes, Martyr, Should, Women

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.

Human, Make, Rights, Self, Two, Written

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.

Control, Father, Guardian, Husband, Like, Men

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

Atheism, God, Say, Say Anything, Sin

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.

Evil, Goodness, Hereafter, Ignorance, Sky, Taught

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

Against, Elevation, Prejudice, Prejudices, Reason, Women

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

Equality, Liberty, Life, Rights

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.

Ideas, Injustices, Lying, Rights, Stone, Women

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.

Hands, Head, Heart, Life, Mass, People

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.

Aggravation, Clothes, Husband, Ideas, Wife, Words

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.

Humble, Powers, Rights, Tell, Voice

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.

Atheism, Atheist, Pleasure, Punishment, Simply, Surer

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