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 Read Quote
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? Frances Wright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. Frances Wright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. Frances Wright Read Quote
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 Read Quote