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 More Quotes by Victoria Woodhull More Quotes From Victoria Woodhull I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. Victoria Woodhull women rights happiness The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell. Victoria Woodhull slavery depth tears So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously. Victoria Woodhull free-love lovers want 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. Victoria Woodhull race mean sex 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. Victoria Woodhull damnation men believe 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 government power country If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. Victoria Woodhull women feminist would-be Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull citizenship women common Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy. Victoria Woodhull strikes dark enemy 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. Victoria Woodhull educational responsibility children When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep. Victoria Woodhull saws light sleep All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . . Victoria Woodhull tomorrow ifs law By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? Victoria Woodhull united-states citizens house Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. Victoria Woodhull entrepreneur support ideas 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. Victoria Woodhull criminals reform citizens I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed. Victoria Woodhull arena possessed rights 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 liberty happiness sex 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. Victoria Woodhull men country children Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. Victoria Woodhull advocating curse bears My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. Victoria Woodhull opinion criticism principles