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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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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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