I am going to strip the masks of hypocrisy from their faces, and let the world see them as they are.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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They have had preaching without practice long enough.
The people want practice now, and when they get it, they can even afford to do without the preaching.
These privileged classes of the people have an enduring hatred for me, and I am glad they have.
I am the friend not only of freedom in all things, and in every form, but also for equality and justice as well.
I am for revolution, if to get equality and justice it is required.
I only want the people to have what it is their right to have—what the religion of humanity, what Christ, were he the arbiter, would give them.
If, in getting that, the people find bayonets opposing them, it will not be their fault if they make their way through them by the aid of bayonets.
And these persons who possess the monopolies and who guard them by bayonets, need not comfort themselves with the idea that the people won’t fight for their rights.
And will you say they will not do the same against this other slavery, compared to which the former is as a gentle shower to a raging tempest?
Don’t flatter yourselves, gentlemen despots, that you are going to escape under that assumption.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.