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Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American social reformer, theosophist, and the first woman to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket. She was a prominent figure in the women's suffrage movement and the labor movement.

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Famous Victoria Woodhull Quotes

“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”

Should Use Government Women Protect Possession Equality Womens Rights

Book:The Victoria Woodhull Reader

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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.”

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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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“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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Book:The Victoria Woodhull Reader

Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader

“I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.”

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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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Book:The Victoria Woodhull Reader

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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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“Women have no government.”

Government Women

Book:The Victoria Woodhull Reader

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