Victoria C. Woodhull: “Why should not this party organize upon some such radical principles of reform that will reach the roots of the ills…”

In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.

The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.