Victoria C. Woodhull: “I tell you, my friends, beware lest those whom you scorn to know be before you with Christ, who knows the heart.”

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…

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

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

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