Victoria C. Woodhull: “American citizens abroad are murdered by Spanish cut-throats, our consuls are insulted, and our flag is disgraced.”

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…

If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?

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.