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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.
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 ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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