Frasi di Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull è stata un'attivista statunitense dei diritti femminili e prima donna candidata alle elezioni presidenziali negli Stati Uniti d'America del 1872. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Settembre 1838 – 9. Giugno 1927
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Victoria Woodhull: Frasi in inglese

“If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. Women have no government. Men have organized a government, and they maintain it to the utter exclusion of women…. [¶] Under such glaring inconsistencies, such unwarrantable tyranny, such unscrupulous despotism, what is there left [for] women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? [¶] There is one alternative left, and we have resolved on that. This convention is for the purpose of this declaration. As surely as one year passes from this day, and this right is not fully, frankly and unequivocally considered, we shall proceed to call another convention expressly to frame a new constitution and to erect a new government, complete in all its parts and to take measures to maintain it as effectually as men do theirs. [¶] We mean treason; we mean secession, and on a thousand times grander scale than was that of the south. We are plotting revolution; we will overslough this bogus republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead, which shall not only profess to derive its power from consent of the governed, but shall do so in reality.”

A Lecture on Constitutional Equality, also known as The Great Secession Speech, speech to Woman's Suffrage Convention, New York, May 11, 1871, excerpt quoted in Gabriel, Mary, Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (Chapel Hill, N.Car.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed. 1998 ISBN 1-56512-132-5, pp. 86–87 & n. [13] (ellipsis or suspension points in original & "[for]" so in original) (author Mary Gabriel journalist, Reuters News Service). Also excerpted, differently, in Underhill, Lois Beachy, The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull (Bridgehampton, N.Y.: Bridge Works, 1st ed. 1995 ISBN 1-882593-10-3, pp. 125–126 & unnumbered n.

“They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform... The world moves.”

The Woman Who Ran for President — in 1872 https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/woodhull. The Attic. Retrieved July 9, 2018.

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

In an article in the West Virginia Evening Standard (1875) expressing her moral opposition to abortion

“The rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while yet they are in fetal life. Children do not come into existence by any will or consent of their own.”

In a speech "Children--Their Rights and Privileges" that led to Victoria Woodhull's election as President of the American Association of Spiritualists at their Eighth National Convention on its second day, Wednesday, September 13, 1871, at Troy, New York

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