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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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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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