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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Wealth, in its present position, is aristocratic; and Labor, in its present position, is democratic.”

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Wealth, in its present position, is aristocratic; and Labor, in its present position, is democratic.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull contrasts the aristocratic nature of wealth with the democratic essence of labor.

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