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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.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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Women have no government.
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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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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.
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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
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