I ask for a law of Divorce…to prevent the crimes and immora… - Ernestine Rose

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I ask for a law of Divorce…to prevent the crimes and immoralities now practiced…too often under the name of marriage…I believe in true marriages, and therefore I ask for a law to free men and women from false ones.

Ernestine Rose

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Ernestine Louise Rose (13 January 1810 – 4 August 1892) 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.

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Alternative Names: Ernestine Louise Rose • Ernestine L. Rose • Ernestine Louise Potowsky • Ernestine Susmond Potowski Rose

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We have been told, to-day, that it was a woman that agitated Great Britain to its very centre, before emancipation could be effected in her colonies. Woman must go hand in hand with man in every great and noble cause, if success would be insured.

justice, like charity, must begin at home.

I ask the President why McClellan was kept in the army so long after it was known — for there never was a time when anything else was known—that he was both incapable and unwilling to do anything?

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