Carolina QuotesThere can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
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- 1913
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“There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential…” Woodrow Wilson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5541BB3D0B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5541bb3d0b
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