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.
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.
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.
It should be the first duty of the labor interest, in each State or national district, to select and elect one from that class that has calmly observed the workings of present systems, and who can show where the cause of existing ills lies.
Though the last are usually found floating about the surface of society, it is to the first, society must look for that wisdom, judgment and executive ability that shall guide it to the desired harbor.
In every community there are some who think a great deal and say little; these, as a general thing, are the antipodes of those who say a great deal and think little.
Let it be set down, once for all time, that he who denounces capital as the oppressor is not the representative labor should choose to right its wrongs.
Nor should they be deceived into the support of any who, by bluster and tongue, loudly proclaim themselves the champions of labor, without the understanding of the first principles that control the relations of labor to capital.
The laboring classes, then, must see to it that they are properly represented in legislation.
Legislation is the primary constructive point from which better conditions must emanate.
Instead, it should direct all its capacities to substitute a new and better foundation, upon which a new and better superstructure of society can be reared.
It should waste no time nor strength upon the minor issues, but concentrate all upon the one strategic point.