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

Frances Wright

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Frances Wright
Age: 57 †
Born: 1795
Born: September 6
Died: 1852
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Writer
City of Dundee
Frances D'Arusmont
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Equality
Liberty
Community
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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.
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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.
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Truth is but approved facts.
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... a nation to be strong, must be united to be united, must be equal in condition to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
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Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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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.
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What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?
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the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.
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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
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The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
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the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
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Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
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