Victoria C. Woodhull: “True religion will not shut itself up in any church away from humanity; it will not stand idly by and see the people…”

I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.

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.

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

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.