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“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

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Frances Wright, an influential figure of her time, delivers a series of lectures and addresses in this book. These lectures cover a range of public issues and are accompanied by a detailed response to the charges leveled against the French reformers of 1789. The second edition of the book offers a revised and updated version of Wright's original work. more

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Frances Wright

Frances Wright was an American writer and social reformer, born on September 6, 1795, and died on December 13, 1852. She is known for her advocacy of women's rights, abolition of slavery, and socialist ideas. more

“It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.”

Ifs May Important Evil Race Half Influence Position Ignorance Improvement Scales Vain Influential One Half Power Of One

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”

Would Be Pleasure Impossible Higher Paid Surprise All Time Estimation Deference

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”

People Looks Country Moments Dream Hands Seems Government Law Voice Arms Breaths Rounds Sage Imposing Utopian

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

“Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.”

Enemy Changed Revolution Pride Spring Dignity Israel Allies Egypt Zionist Arab Spring Times Have Changed Tunisia

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”