Ernestine Rose Quotes
We are not crusading for the rights of the women of New England or of old England but of the world.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky
Ernestine Rose, 1810-1892, Reformer, Abolitionist and Feminist, Speech, First National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, MA 1850
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She was in China as a delegate to the international congress and not in an official capacity as a representative and First Lady of the United States. Nonetheless, such implied criticism of the Chinese leadership in their own capital.
This remarkable statement was written in about 1840 and there was probably then few people of either gender who would think such a thing possible.
Stowe persuaded Lockwood to stand for President. They tried to recruit a man for the Vice Presidential nomination, and when they could not, Stowe became the first female to become a Vice Presidential candidate.
She was overly optimistic. She would be dead for 30 years before women got the vote and some would argue that full equality has not been reached yet.
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.
