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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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.
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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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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
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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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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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