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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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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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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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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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