We have repeatedly appealed to the productive classes to arouse from the slough of trustfulness and indifference in which they have remained so long, and to bestir themselves about their business of governing themselves.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “We have repeatedly appealed to the productive classes to arouse from the slough of trustfulness and indifference in…”
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Woodhull urges the productive classes to take charge of their self-governance.
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