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American
-
Activist
September 23
, 1838 -
June 9
, 1927
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
Myself
,
Trust
,
Criticism
,
Sincerity
,
Now
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
Good
,
Time
,
Others
,
Coming
,
Good Time
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
Women
,
Power
,
Law
,
Government
,
Country
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull
Women
,
Citizenship
,
Right
,
Cannot
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
Woman
,
Succeed
,
Will
,
Why
,
Miserable
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
Love
,
Change
,
I Am
,
Day
,
Long
,
Short
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
Victoria Woodhull
Life
,
Man
,
Woman
,
More
,
Than
,
Herself
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
Dreams
,
Wife
,
Soul
,
Great
,
Society
,
Rude
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Victoria Woodhull
Freedom
,
Me
,
You
,
Better
,
Will
,
Curse
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull
Love
,
Practice
,
Free
,
Against
,
Judges
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
Love
,
Black
,
Loved
,
You
,
White
,
Young
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
Women
,
Future
,
Government
,
Listen
,
Left
Women have no government.
Victoria Woodhull
Women
,
Government
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
Women
,
Today
,
Men
,
Rise
,
Demand
,
Would
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
Women
,
Men
,
Victory
,
Independence
,
Week
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Victoria Woodhull
Heart
,
Broken
,
Child
,
Human
,
Birth
,
Had
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
Victoria Woodhull
Myself
,
Criticism
,
Opinions
,
Principles
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
Face
,
Place
,
Go
,
Want
,
Like
,
Decency
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Victoria Woodhull
Woman
,
Financial
,
Question
,
Over
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Victoria Woodhull
Change
,
Better
,
Desire
,
Because
,
Than
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
Man
,
Unfair
,
Go
,
Mean
,
Behind
,
Cowardly
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Victoria Woodhull
Man
,
Woman
,
Treat
,
She
,
Her
,
Fair
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
Victoria Woodhull
Everything
,
Make
,
Most
,
Endeavor
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
Victoria Woodhull
Hands
,
Shake
,
Sanitary
,
Standpoint
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
Life
,
Happiness
,
Sex
,
You
,
Liberty
,
Come
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull
Happiness
,
I Am
,
Government
,
Voice
,
Ask
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