Frances Wright Quotes
We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.
Wright, Frances. Course of Popular Lectures. Office of the Free Enquirer, 1829.
He was referring to the fact that President Elect, Donald Trump, who argued against the findings of the CIA and the FBIK who in separate analyses had stated that Russia had hacked into the computers of the DemocraticNatonal Committee and released the private e-mails in the midst of the 2016 Presidential election. Trump, who had a track record of rejecting scientific and professional studies and research in favor of his own perception and intuation, was one of teh few leading politicans, computer security experts, and business leaders who opposed a Congressional investigation of the details.
Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years. In the late 1820s Wright was the first woman lecturer to speak publicly before gatherings of men and women in the United States about political and social-reform issues. She advocated universal education, the emancipation of slaves, birth control, equal rights, sexual freedom, legal rights for married women, and liberal divorce laws. Wright was also vocal in her opposition to organized religion and capital punishment. The clergy and the press harshly criticized Wright's radical views. Her public lectures in the United States led to the establishment of Fanny Wright societies and her association with the Working Men's Party, organized in New York City in 1829, became so strong that its opponents called the party's slate of candidates the Fanny Wright ticket.
