It is this innate sense of individual right which is present in the consciousness of every individual who has grown to know he is an individual, which makes this constant conflict between ultimation and approximation.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “It is this innate sense of individual right which is present in the consciousness of every individual who has grown to…”
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Woodhull discusses the inherent conflict between individual rights and societal expectations.
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It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
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.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.