I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.Victoria Woodhull
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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