What have the masses known of the essence of the issues that have formed the platform of the political parties for the last fifty years?
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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That the blind should be led necessitates the continuous condition of blindness.
The rank and file that have so long blindly followed wherever their leaders commanded are becoming imbued with this spirit, and they begin to realize that they have been mere automatons that have been moved with no acquiescent will of…
A party may exist called Democratic, but it will be upon new issues and must take new departures.
The Democratic party sold itself out to slavery and virtually died when slavery died.
Instead of strife let us have co-operation; instead of war let us have peace; instead of the process of fermentation let us have that of mutual understanding.
The latter must remember that they cannot compel capitalists to their terms, and capitalists must not forget that if there are real causes of dissatisfaction growing out of injustice, the sooner justice is done the less serious will be the…
Come, let us reason together,” was never more judiciously proposed than it could now be by capitalists and workingmen.
Strife and animosity will never accomplish half so much as calmness, reason and persuasion.
Between two evils choose the least; but in the pursuit of remedies, the root of the disease should never be lost sight of.
While this condition of ignorance and perverseness keeps the world inharmonious and subjected to suffering, we should avail ourselves of all the alleviatory methods that can be suggested in our present system.
There are too few who understand the real rights of man, and too many who do not wish to understand them.