Victoria C. Woodhull: “Were there no inequalities between men in claims to certain areas of the earth’s surface, no other monopolies would find…”

Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.