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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- Ernestine Rose

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.

- Ernestine Rose

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 …

- Ernestine Rose