Victoria C. Woodhull: “Whatever will be crushed out by new discoveries and publication of truth has already performed its mission.”

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…

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

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.

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