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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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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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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 ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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