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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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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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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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You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
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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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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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future 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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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 shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
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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 do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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