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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.
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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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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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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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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.
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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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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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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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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