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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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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.


— 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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I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.


— 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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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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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.


— Frances Wright


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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.


— Frances Wright


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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.


— Frances Wright


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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 receive it.


— Frances Wright


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About Frances Wright






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She died in 1852 in Cincinnati Ohio from complications resulting from a fall on an icy staircase. Her publication of Views of Society and Manners in America was a major turning point as it brought her new acquaintances and led to her return to the United States where Frances Wright became establiFrances Wrightd as a social reformer. Her guardian indoctrinated her with ideas founded on the philosophy of the French materialists.

citizen in 1825. That year Frances Wright founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation intending to create an egalitarian place but it lasted only three years. Her Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation.

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