Message to woman suffrage supporters (c. 1875)
1870s
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3
Social Statics (1851)
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 64.
At a New York State convention, Rochester, N.Y. (1853), quoted in Kolmerten, Carol A., The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999, p. 129-130.
“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”
Book I, ch. 20.
Discourses
Source: A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered
“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
"The Limitations of Toleration" (8 May 1888), in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol VII
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.”
Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 30
Context: Perhaps you think that the crucial difference between a fly and a human blastocyst is to be found in the latter's potential to become a fully developed human being. But almost every cell in your body is a potential human being, given our recent advances in genetic engineering. Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings. This is a fact. The argument from a cell's potential gets you absolutely nowhere.
