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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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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.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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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 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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