It is impossible for this concentration of mind upon one centre to be productive of anything but a growing likeness among those who are the subjects of it.
Victoria C. Woodhull
The Public Record
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.
All the discoveries in all departments of life tend to the same unification of thought and interest.
In this unification is contained the prophecy of what the future shall be when no individual, family, nation or race, shall feel that they can live entirely for themselves.
The lesson the present movers in labor reforms have to learn is that of harmonizing the interests of labor and capital by the demonstrations of science.
These sustain the harmonies of the universe, and should be never-failing authorities for humanity to pattern after.
The world is capable of producing luxuriousness for all its children.
A very large proportion of the capacity of humanity for production is diverted from natural occupations by the illegitimate relations existing in society.
A part live off of the vitality of the rest; the principal object of the part being to see how much of the fruits of the rest they can aggregate, either by personal capacity, trickery or cunning, or by ingenious devices of law formed and…
A perfect equality and an equal justice condemns all such distributions of the fruits of the earth.
If capacity for acquisition exist among a part of the people, government should interfere to stop its being practiced at the expense of others.
This principle is recognized in very many things in government; for instance, the public demands a common highway which must interfere with the rights and interests of individuals; the individuals are compelled to give way for the public…
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.