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

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

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

- Ernestine Rose

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

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 …

- Ernestine Rose

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

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

- Ernestine Rose

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 mistr…

- Ernestine Rose

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. …

- Ernestine Rose