Victoria C. Woodhull: “A right of a citizen is inherent in the individual, of which he cannot…”

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A right of a citizen is inherent in the individual, of which he cannot be deprived by any law of any State.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull asserts that citizenship inherently includes the right to vote, which cannot be revoked by state laws.

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A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

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.

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

Victoria C. Woodhull: “A right of a citizen is inherent in the individual, of which he cannot be deprived by any law of any State.”