If hedged in and obstructed, it will burst through or find its way around.
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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The needle is not truer to the pole than is Nature to the truth.
Those propositions were deduced from human rights, regardless of any authority or despotism.
Had they been elucidated—had their principles guided the construction of the Constitution itself, all would have been well.
What our fathers failed to do is left for this generation to perform; and it must not shirk the duty.
It must look the condition squarely in the face, and meet the issue as squarely.
What issues must be met and provided for in order that human rights may be respected and protected?
I will call attention first to minority representation, which lies at the base of a representative government.
While it is true that majorities must rule, that is not equal to saying that minorities shall have no voice.
Admit minority representation, and the Republican party in Massachusetts would be abolished, except that part who carry the loaves and eat the fishes.
Then will partisan politics have received its death warrant; then will the people become one in heart, one in soul and one in common purpose—the general good of the general whole.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.