"If Congress refuse to listen to and grant……" — Victoria Woodhull
"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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50 Quotes by Victoria Woodhull
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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…
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold…
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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as…
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral…
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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways…
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . .…
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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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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may…
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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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