Victoria C. Woodhull: “This principle applied everywhere would carry us back to pre-historic times, when every individual was his own supreme…”

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.