The wealthy classes are systematically conservative; and by instinct they are opposed to all movements which tend to equalization.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “The wealthy classes are systematically conservative; and by instinct they are opposed to all movements which tend to…”
Editor's note · Context
Woodhull critiques the wealthy for their conservative stance against movements aimed at social equality.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.
If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?