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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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 do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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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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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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When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
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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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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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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You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.
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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.
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