Occupation: Social Activist Birth: May 14, 1771 Death: November 17, 1858
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty..
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others..
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelt….
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked….
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in….
Never argue, repeat your assertion..
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society..
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co….
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know tha….
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate..
My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits w….
Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior mach….
Man is the creature of circumstances..
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the c….
It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in i….
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahea….
It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the princ….
Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?.
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages..
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious fe….
Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect ….