"I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor……" — Frances Wright
"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 offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands."
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48 Quotes by Frances Wright
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
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Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it…
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Credulity is always ridiculous.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of…
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good…
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights…
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An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may…
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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