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" Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. "
Frances Wright
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" If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Man has been adjudged a social animal. "
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Man
Been
" A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. "
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" 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. "
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Mind
" 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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Mind
Practice
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" Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? "
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Speak
Alarm
Change
" There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. "
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Touch
Where
" It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. "
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Liberty
Foundation
" Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. "
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Pets
Over
" Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. "
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Unseen
Unknown
Religion
" Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. "
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Understand
Know
Faith
" 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. "
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Horizon
Religion
Present
" Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. "
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Look
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Action
" 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
Equality
Knowledge
Me
" Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. "
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Respect
Powers
Will
" 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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Ignorance
Minds
" And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. "
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Preaching
Things
Good
" 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? "
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Liberty
Attention
May
" The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. "
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Progress
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" 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. "
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Women
Society
Place
" Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. "
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Ideas
Moral
" The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. "
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Ever
Sciences
Guides
" We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. "
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Forget
Wealth
Men
" 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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Doing
Tyranny
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