Ernestine Rose Quotes
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
Kolmerten, Carol A. The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose. Syracuse University Press, 1999, p. 110.
The President had taken a hard line against Iran developing the capacity for nuclear weapons even though some other nations in the world had nuclear capability. However the President and other leaders of Iran had already publicly stated that there should be death to the United States, that our ally Israel should be wiped off the map. Critics of the President claimed that these statements were just rhetoric that is part of the culture of Islamic politics and oratory. The president responded with this quotation. Before WWII Adolf Hitler had written Mein Kampf and wrote about everything that he eventually did causing death and destruction throughout the world. At the time he wrote these things few took him seriously.
Lord Action had a famous version of this sentiment—{625555}.
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.
