It is to the philosopher, and not to the politician, that the labor interest must turn its eyes, and though he be not smooth of tongue and glib of speech, he will lay such a foundation in law as will produce the conditions desired.
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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You cannot expect that those who are not of you can appreciate your wants or understand your conditions.
There are those who were reared in wealth whose hearts sympathize with you, and who feel quite as keenly as you do the injustice you suffer.
In these you will find your best advocates, but see to it that your suffrages are never, once again, worse than withheld.
You are in the majority, and the fault is your own if you do not make use of the power you possess.
Nominate and elect your own men; if your first choice fails you, try again, and continue trying, until the right man for the position is found; and when found, while holding him strictly accountable, give him your cordial support while he…
Most persons who occupy position now, feel compelled to yield principle to the demands of policy, in order to retain it.
None are fit to hold position who will sacrifice one iota of their conviction in order to retain it.
It cannot be too strongly insisted upon, nor too often repeated, that it is the first duty of the labor interest to look to it that our halls of legislation are filled by those who understand the true and the harmonious relations of labor…
It is the most complete evidence of supineness on the part of the laboring classes that they are not now represented as they should be.
The difficulty has been—and we fear will be—that while the laborer has been busy at his regular task, others have managed the incipient stages that produce the candidates, in such a manner that the interests of the majority have been…
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.