Political Quotes

Victoria C. Woodhull: “Labor, therefore, is the fulcrum of the great lever of progress, lifting humanity from the material up to the spiritual…”

On the record
Labor, therefore, is the fulcrum of the great lever of progress, lifting humanity from the material up to the spiritual realm.
Said by
Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

This quote highlights Woodhull's belief that labor is essential for societal advancement and spiritual growth.

Share

More from Victoria C. Woodhull

If the angel in the bush were possible, why may not angels manifest the wisdom, power, and justice of God in our legislative halls?

gutenberg.org

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…

gutenberg.org