Victoria Woodhull Quotes and Sayings
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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I endeavor to make the most of everything. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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? Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman? Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑
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Women have no government. Victoria Woodhull | Refcard PDF ↑