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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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 sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.
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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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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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