Quotes of Frances Wright - somelinesforyou

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd. ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ 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. ”

- Frances Wright

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

- Frances Wright

“ Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ”

- Frances Wright

“ 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. ”

- Frances Wright

“ Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ”

- Frances Wright

“ Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem. ”

- Frances Wright

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

- Frances Wright

“ The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ”

- Frances Wright

“ What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason. ”

- Frances Wright

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

- Frances Wright

“ 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. ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem. ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself. ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. ”

- Frances Wright
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