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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
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I believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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