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Victoria C. Woodhull: “There is too much poverty, too much suffering, too much hard work, too many hours of labor for individuals, too many…”

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There is too much poverty, too much suffering, too much hard work, too many hours of labor for individuals, too many sleepless nights, too many starving poor, too many hungry children, too many in helpless old age, to permit these villanous abuses to continue sheltered under the name of respectability and public order.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull highlights the severe social issues of poverty and suffering, calling for an end to abuses disguised as respectability.

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