And this education shall continue until every person who contributes to the maintenance of another in luxurious idleness shall know how such a result is rendered possible.
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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Hence, I say, it lies in the hands of those who have maintained this despotism over the common people to yield it up to them and recognize their just relations.
There was one way by which the slave war could have been avoided—the abolition of slavery.
Now, will not these later oligarchies—the land, the railroad, the money aristocracies—learn a lesson from their terrible fate?
Ponder that lesson well, and do not neglect to give it its true application.
You can compromise now, and the same general end be arrived at without the baptism of blood.
Nevertheless, equality and justice are on the march, and they cannot be hindered.
The text of the Constitution held these truths to be self-evident, “That all men (and women) are born equal and entitled to certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The Constitution should…
There is no such thing as equality provided for.
Life and liberty have not been held inalienable under it; the pursuit of happiness has been outrageously interfered with, and the government has been made to exist without the consent of the governed; and exists to-day against the protests…
It is against the constitution of nature itself that it should be so.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.