Force, as a regulator, can at best be but a mere temporary makeshift, which, unless quickly followed by justice in organization, degenerates into absolutism.
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 shows that they, if possessed of the power, would wield it more despotically than it is now wielded by those possessing it.
Without it, the first is powerless, and the last dangerous to those who command and support it.
Science, to the organizations of labor, is what discipline is to the army.
They need the aid of science to point out the paths in which they should seek to walk.
Common schools for children, and the public press for adults, have done and are doing the work of emancipation.
General education is all that the world requires to emancipate it from the rule of all kinds of aristocracy.
When education began its silent yet potent work, the power of assumed “divine right” began to weaken.
This assumption has been exercised so long that those over whom it has been swayed have come to regard it as something approaching a “divine right.” This condition of servitude was possible so long as ignorance possessed the masses over…
Wealth, in its present position, is aristocratic; and Labor, in its present position, is democratic.
The time was when it was the grossest infidelity to question any of the extravagant assertions contained in the Bible; but nearly all Christian sects now assume the right to place their own construction upon what is found therein.
They adopt a creed which their practice is never to depart from, and it is only by the force of the large majority of the people combined against them that they ever do depart from them.