Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

REFORMERS > activist > Ernestine L Rose

Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Source: REFORMERS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Source: Speech, 14 May 14 1863, at a national conventon or the Woman's National Loval League.
-- Ernestine L Rose, ( 1810-1892), US activist; She was an early advocate for women's rights traveling for more than three decades giving eloquent speeches and seeking petition signatures.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA