Why do they advocate any general government at all?
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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It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
This conclusion rouses the spirit of independence in the laborer, and he determines to redress his wrongs.
Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.
In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.
How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?
Production lies at the basis of all progress.
Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.
It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.