Quote by Ernestine Rose
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman

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

Other quotes by 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. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. – Ernestine Rose

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sad
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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

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Religion
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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

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Freedom
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However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. – Adam Rickitt

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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. – Paul Ricoeur

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legal

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. – Ralph Neas

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legal

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. – Jack Abramoff

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legal

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Truth is the daughter of Time. – Abraham Lincoln

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from lifes page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. – Lord Byron

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. – Michelangelo

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