Victoria Woodhull Quotes - Page 2

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.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

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

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

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.

The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

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.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.