I tell you there are still mightier and more glorious things to come than human tongue hath spoken or heart conceived.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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Little did our noble sires imagine what a century would do with what they set in motion.
We must open new channels for the expansion of the human soul.
There is a grander expansion than either of these.
Wealth and knowledge have brought us power, but we lack wisdom.
To material prosperity and intellectual acquirements there must be added moral purity, and then we shall get wisdom.
Everybody appears to live as though this life were all there is of life, and that to get from it the most physical enjoyment were the grand thing to be attained.
Wealth has been made almost the sole aim of living, whereas it should only be regarded as the means to a better end; as the means by which to accumulate an immense capital with which to begin life in the next and higher stage of existence…
In this view, what are professing Christians—the churches—doing for the general good to-day?
I tell you, my friends, beware lest those whom you scorn to know be before you with Christ, who knows the heart.
It is not what you pretend that shall make you Christian, but what you do, and if you do right, though the world curse you, yet shall you lay up treasures in Heaven thereby.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.