Victoria Woodhull Quotes
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
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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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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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Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.
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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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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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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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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
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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 do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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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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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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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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 would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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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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I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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