Victoria C. Woodhull: “Thus barbarism invites the elements which ultimately transform it into general worldly utility.”

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…

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…

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

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