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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Nevertheless, all reform originates primarily from a common cause—the effort of humanity to attain to the full exercise…”

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Nevertheless, all reform originates primarily from a common cause—the effort of humanity to attain to the full exercise of human right, only attainable through the possession of freedom, equality and justice.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull identifies the common cause of all reform as humanity's quest for fundamental rights through freedom, equality, and justice.

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