"Opinions are not to be learned by rote,……" — Frances Wright
"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 formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten."
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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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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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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and…
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
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