Ernestine L. Rose

“Superstition is the great enemy of man.”

“I am a daughter of humanity. I know no country, no sex, no color, no sect. I belong to the great human family.”

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

“We have no right to dictate to our neighbors, what they shall believe, or what they shall not believe.”

“The motto of the age is 'Educate.'...But what is education? Is it a collection of mysterious letters of the alphabet? No.”

“If you have a right to receive it, you have a right to give it.”

“My creed is to do good, my religion is to be good.”

“I believe in the religion of humanity.”

“I am an abolitionist, not because I am a woman, but because I am a human being.”

“I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life, she has a right to earn a support for that life.”

“A free mind is the first prerequisite for a free people.”

“Let us not talk of 'woman's rights,' but of 'human rights'.”

“Truth is my God; my conscience is my guide.”

“Agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom.”

“For what is life without liberty? And what is liberty without equality of rights?”