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

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

- 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

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

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

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 an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

- Ernestine Rose

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 w…

- Ernestine Rose

And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home…

- Ernestine Rose