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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. - Frances Wright
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. - Frances Wright
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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 instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. - Frances Wright
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. - Frances Wright
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. - Frances Wright
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. - Frances Wright
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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 assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. - Frances Wright
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. - Frances Wright
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? - Frances Wright
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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 influential. - Frances Wright
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. - Frances Wright
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. - Frances Wright
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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 knows only the exercise of muscles. - Frances Wright
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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. - Frances Wright
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. - Frances Wright
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. - Frances Wright
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. - Frances Wright
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. - Frances Wright
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. - Frances Wright
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. - Frances Wright
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. - Frances Wright
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