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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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 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 must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.
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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 am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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. . .
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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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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his 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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I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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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.
Victoria Woodhull
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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