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1. "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." ~ Ernestine Rose
2. "If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor." ~ Ernestine Rose
3. "Slavery and freedom cannot exist together." ~ Ernestine Rose
4. "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
5. "We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society." ~ Ernestine Rose
6. "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
7. "Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?" ~ Ernestine Rose
8. "If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom." ~ Ernestine Rose
9. "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
10. "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
11. "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
12. "Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'" ~ Ernestine Rose
13. "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." ~ Ernestine Rose
14. "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
15. "If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own." ~ Ernestine Rose
16. "In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented." ~ Ernestine Rose
17. "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
18. "Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters." ~ Ernestine Rose
19. "I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything." ~ Ernestine Rose
20. "If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God." ~ Ernestine Rose
21. "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

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