Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Meaning of the quote
Victoria Woodhull was saying that even if people criticize her for trying to give people more freedom, she will accept their criticism and disapproval with a calm and patient attitude. She will not let their negative words stop her from fighting for the rights and freedoms she believes in.
About Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull was a pioneering leader of the women’s suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in 1872, making her the first woman to do so. She was also an activist for labor reforms and a proponent of ‘free love’, advocating for the freedom to marry, divorce, and have children without social or government restrictions.
More quotes from Victoria Woodhull
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
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.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
Women have no government.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
To go behind a man’s hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)