Ernestine Rose Quote

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader (ed. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2008)