Victoria C. Woodhull: “People may pretend that it is justice, and good Christians may excuse it upon that ground, but Christ would never have…”

Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?

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

Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David, Solomon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Bonaparte, Washington, and many others, of all nations and climes, to whom history…

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…