Frances Wright Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“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.”

“But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?”