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The wealthy classes are systematically conservative; and by instinct they are opposed to all movements which tend to equalization.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull critiques the wealthy for their conservative stance against movements aimed at social equality.
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Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.