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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.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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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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Women have no government.
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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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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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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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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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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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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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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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