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“Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.”

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“A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.”

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Book:The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future
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“While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.”

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Book:The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future
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“No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!”

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