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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. ↗

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

— 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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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. ↗

— Francis 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. ↗

— Francis Wright

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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. ↗

— Francis Wright

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