While the one-fifth enjoy the luxuries thus produced, as though they had acquired them by divine right, which none may call in question nor dispute, the great power of the laboring many has never been felt.
Woodhull critiques the entitlement of the wealthy, who enjoy luxuries without acknowledging the labor behind them.
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