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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

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 will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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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 imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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