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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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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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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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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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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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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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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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