It is the greatest mistake of the age—it has been the greatest mistake of all ages—to suppose that individual benefit must accrue from the acquisition of wealth at the expense or sacrifice of any general principle of justice.
Woodhull argues against the misconception that personal wealth can be gained without considering justice for all.
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Production lies at the basis of all progress.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.