"Let us unite on the safe and sure……" — Frances Wright
"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."
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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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I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would…
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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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