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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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