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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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 spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
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I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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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 do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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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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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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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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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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