Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Frances Wright Writer

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: Scotland
  • Born: Sep 6, 1795
  • Died: Dec 13, 1852

Frances Wright also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825. That year she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, intending to create an egalitarian place, but it lasted only three years. Her Views of Society and Manners in America brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. religion

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. knowledge

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. Christmas

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. knowledge

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