Frances Wright Quotes

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• Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
• I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
• Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be…
• Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
• Credulity is always ridiculous.
• I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever…
• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of…
• Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike…
• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
• An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve…
• These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to…
• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and…
• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
• He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who…
• Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
• Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,…
• I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex…
• Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds,…

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