On the record
Society, of which they are a part, owes them the necessities of life, even if it be compelled to force them to earn them.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull argues that society has an obligation to provide basic necessities for its members.
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They must and will attain their journey’s end.
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.
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.