Victoria C. Woodhull: “And by the Heaven above us, earth’s growing children are going to have it!”

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…

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

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