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Victoria C. Woodhull: “The whole substrata of society is seething and foaming with pent-up endurance of injustice and wrong, and unless those…”

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The whole substrata of society is seething and foaming with pent-up endurance of injustice and wrong, and unless those abuses which have produced this condition are remedied at once, the existence of the Government cannot be counted upon.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She describes societal unrest as a result of enduring injustice and warns of potential governmental collapse.

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