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Victoria C. Woodhull: “A part live off of the vitality of the rest; the principal object of the part being to see how much of the fruits of the…”

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A part live off of the vitality of the rest; the principal object of the part being to see how much of the fruits of the rest they can aggregate, either by personal capacity, trickery or cunning, or by ingenious devices of law formed and administered in their interests.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull critiques the exploitative nature of certain societal structures that benefit a few at the expense of many.

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