This done, and a sound financial system also inaugurated, the lower classes of society would begin to be leveled up to the medium, and the upper classes to be leveled down to the same basis of material prosperity.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “This done, and a sound financial system also inaugurated, the lower classes of society would begin to be leveled up to…”
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Woodhull envisions a financial system that elevates the lower classes and balances wealth distribution.
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