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Frances "Fanny" Wright è stata una scrittrice socialista, femminista, abolizionista e libera pensatrice scozzese. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Settembre 1795 – 13. Dicembre 1852
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Frances Wright: Frasi in inglese

“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”

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Lecture VI: Formation of Opinions
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)

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

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Lecture V: Morals
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)

“I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.”

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Self-written epitaph on her tombstone in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Ohio (c. 1850)

“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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Lecture II: Of Free Inquiry, considered as a Means for obtaining Just Knowledge
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)

“The great national and political revolution of '76 set the seal to the liberties of North America. And but for one evil, and that of immense magnitude, which the constitutional provision we have been considering does not fairly reach — I allude to negro slavery and the degradation of our coloured citizens — we could foresee for the whole of this magnificent country a certain future of uniform and peaceful improvement.”

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Independence Day speech (1828)

“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”

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Lecture III: Of the more Important Divisions and Essential Parts of Knowledge
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)

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