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Let there be a penalty placed upon monopolizing the common property, and it will soon cease and equality come in its place.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull calls for penalties against monopolies to promote equality and prevent the concentration of wealth.
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The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
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