"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations.
"The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles.
"The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S."
— -- James Madison, being outvoted in the bill to establish the office of Congressional Chaplain, from the "Detached Memoranda," Elizabeth Fleet, "Madison's Detached Memoranda." William and Mary Quarterly (1946): 554-62.
Keeping the faith
Keep your laws your hate and your dirty murdering hands off of my body and out of my home.
For a while, a moment evanescent, I hoped the race of man would include the race of women.
For a life time I have fought for my rights. Voted chanted screamed prayed and cried out for my rights.
These ones who hate delight in my pain. They want me to be pregnant so they can murder my sons and rape my daughters, and stuff their poison down my throat.
I will tell you now. No matter how exhausted I am by the fight I will never lay down and let them win. They will never win.