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Victoria C. Woodhull: “This power is not in the individuals who exercise it, they are simply its servants.”

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This power is not in the individuals who exercise it, they are simply its servants.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull clarifies that those who wield power are merely its agents, not the source of it.

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