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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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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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