The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

- Frances Wright

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of con…

- Frances Wright

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

- Frances Wright

... 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; …

- Frances Wright

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

- Frances Wright

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 quadrupe…

- Frances Wright

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

- Frances Wright

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examin…

- Frances Wright

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that t…

- Frances Wright