On the record
Women are the equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights as citizens.
Said by
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull declares that women are equal to men under the law and possess equal rights as citizens.
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Our Government is a nearer approach to a popular form, and more nearly allied to true freedom and justice than any other in existence.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.