Ernestine Rose Quotes
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, 1810–1892, Orator, Feminist & Abolitionist, Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention, New York, November 25–26, 1856
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He was an overt atheist; there were many non believers in Europe at the time but few were overt. He also wrote under the name of Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud.
See {586269} for an American view of the subject.
Blacks in America are generally more religious than whites and almost all religious Blacks are Christian. As such, they tend to be very forgiving, non-violent, and more tolerant of sin and wrong than whites are. Foreman and others believe if Blacks had not been so Christianized, they would have been more rebellious, more violent and more vengeful than there were and are. This may well have been better for them in terms of American History and in getting more of the “pie” of contemporary society.”
Ernestine Louise Rose was an atheist feminist, individualist feminist, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America.
