There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essentia… - Woodrow Wilson

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There 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

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War

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Alternative Names: Thomas Woodrow Wilson • T. Woodrow Wilson • Thomas W. Wilson • President Wilson • T. W. Wilson • T. Wilson

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