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. – Frances Wright
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. – Frances Wright
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it. – Frances Wright
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. – Frances Wright
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950