Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Rose Pastor Stokes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Rose Pastor Stokes.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of some public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to Episcopalian millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York. Together they joined the Socialist Party. Pastor Stokes continued to be active in labor politics and women's issues, including promoting access to birth control, which was highly controversial at the time.

American - Writer | July 18, 1879 - June 20, 1933

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My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Rose Pastor Stokes

Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Rose Pastor Stokes

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

Rose Pastor Stokes

Whether you believe in a creed, or what you call religion, or not, there is something in Socialism that must move you. How can you love God, whom you have not seen, if you do not love your fellow man, whom you have seen?

Rose Pastor Stokes

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Rose Pastor Stokes