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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.
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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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
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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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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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 shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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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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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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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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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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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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