It is not laid down in any spirit of mere speculation, but as a mark which the human family is capable of attaining, and one to which it should aspire.
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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Simple individual exertion can never be constructive of society.
Neither can the exertions of a great number of individuals become constructive unless their action is combined or organized in one direction and for the same purpose.
Agitation must always precede organization, and hence it is that nearly all primary movements are simply destructive or disintegrating to existing conditions.
A perfect system of freedom is one of the first essentials, and this must be regulated by an exact justice, as between a community of brothers and sisters.
No ignoring of any part of the community, whether male or female, can exist The organization must recognize each and every member of the community, and they in turn must also recognize the organization which becomes the rule of government.
No one will attempt to deny but that there is sufficient capital or wealth in the world to enable every one to live in a palace; neither would any deny that the conditions of humanity would be very much improved could such a leveling down…
Again, there are railroads of great importance to the general public whose earnings are not sufficient to make any returns to stockholders, scarcely sufficient to meet current expenses, and yet the public welfare would not permit of their…
The same line of policy that controls the postal service should be pursued by government in regard to railroads.
None now think of intrusting that very important department of the government to private enterprise.
Is the transportation of the public itself of less vital and general importance than its thoughts and wishes are, that it should be obliged to rely upon private enterprise to accomplish its welfare, and to obtain it be subject to its…
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.