The enemy of all good could not do a greater service to the cause of evil, than by leading Christian men blindly to interpose the Bible as a barrier against every social reform, so that when the reform triumphs it shall seem … to be not merely the defeat of the opposers of the reform, but the overthrow of the Bible, also … This book is too precious … to be thrown in the street to help form a barricade against every attempt to overthrow old dynasties of wrong.
Annie Savery Jan. 8, 1871 – pioneer feminist