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From the era which dates the national existence of the American people, dates also a mighty step in the march of human knowledge.

— Frances Wright Independence Day speech (1828)

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

We detect … throughout the whole of things — in the operations of nature, of human society, and in those of our own internal percipient and sentient soul — two master energies.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

A Few Days in Athens (1822)

The Virginians are said to pride themselves upon the peculiar tenderness with which they visit the sceptre of authority on their African vassals.

How many, how omnipotent are the interests which engage men to break the mental chains of women!

A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)

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