Victoria C. Woodhull: “All men are born free and equal, does not mean that all men born in the United States are free and equal, but that all…”

Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?

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?

What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.