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Victoria C. Woodhull: Let those, therefore, who ridiculed the negro’s claim to exercise the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of…

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Let those, therefore, who ridiculed the negro’s claim to exercise the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and who lived to see him vote and hold high public office, ridicule the aspirations of the women of the country for complete political equality as much as they please.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that just as the rights of African Americans were once ridiculed, so too are the aspirations of women for political equality.

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