Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
Matilda Joslyn GageThe careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Matilda Joslyn GageWomen should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.
Matilda Joslyn GageWhen any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?
Matilda Joslyn Gage