"We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began."

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The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most important decision reached in the New World. Everywhere in the western world of the 18th century, church and state were one; and everywhere the state maintained an established church and tried to force conformity to its dogma.

— Henry Steele Commager