Victoria C. Woodhull: “I will call attention first to minority representation, which lies at the base of a representative government.”

The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.

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.

At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.

If he will not labor, society should compel him.