The best friends are those who show us our faults and sustain us in the right.
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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This question forms one of the corner-stones of future society, but of all the questions in which society seems interested it is the worst understood.
Four-fifths of the people of the world toil on, year after year, and all the time see the other fifth revelling in the luxuries the sweat of their brows has produced.
While the one-fifth enjoy the luxuries thus produced, as though they had acquired them by divine right, which none may call in question nor dispute, the great power of the laboring many has never been felt.
It has no organization, and herein lies its weakness.
Organization should be effected for two principal ends: First, for construction; second, for destruction.
The old systems cumber the ground whereon the new must be reared, and they must be pulled down to give it room; nevertheless, the constructive part of the operation must first begin; before the old will yield, the new must at least be…
This new rests upon foundations deeper down than existing things, and these can, therefore, be used previously to the destruction of the foundations of the old.
The new also reaches higher than the old; hence its frame-work may be reared, while yet the old stand comparatively intact.
This is the philosophy of Integration and of Disintegration in all departments of the universe.
Labor and Capital is a question relating in the first instance to the material prosperity of a people; but secondarily it reacts upon all other interests—intellectual, moral, physical and religious.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.