Victoria C. Woodhull: “Already its divine notes have pierced some of the dark places of earth, making glad the hearts of their oppressed…”

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

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.

Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.

The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.