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Ernestine Rose Quotes
Page 2 of 2Ernestine Rose
January 13, 1810 - August 4, 1892
Category: Activist
|  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. | | 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. | | From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. | | But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! |
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