The 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 GageDo not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
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 GageIt has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.
Matilda Joslyn Gage