Frances Wright Quotes

A collection of quotes by Frances Wright.

Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a Scottish-American writer, lecturer, and social reformer. She was an influential advocate for women's rights, abolition of slavery, and education. Wright gained prominence through her passionate speeches advocating for the end of racial and gender discrimination. In 1825, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, where she aimed to demonstrate racial equality and emancipation through labor reform. Despite the failure of the commune, Wright continued her efforts to combat social injustice and promote progressive ideas through her writings, lectures, and activism.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral off

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

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Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your le

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Science Mind Leisure

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Science Virtues

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth,

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.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage render

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

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no libert

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

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction

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.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Ch

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they ad

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

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the sa

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.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of

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.