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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for 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 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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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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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 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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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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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Women have no government.
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I believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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