Victoria Woodhull Quotes
As surely as one year passes from this day, … 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.
She advocated the women creating their own U. S. Constitution and living by it. If enough women did, she argued, the men would have to accommodate and accept many of the clauses. She was not only advocating an equal rights amendment, but a more substantial change to outlaw private discrimination against women which would not have been covered by an equal rights amendment, since at the time private discrimination of all kinds was legal and practiced widely.
Victoria Woodhull, 1838-1927, First Financier & Female Stock Broker, Suffragette Leader, Publisher &, Equal Rights Party Candidate for President of the United States, First female presidential candidate &, First divorcee to run for that office, The Great Secession Speech, Speech to the Woman's Suffrage Convention, New York City, May 11, 1871
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1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth
The Turkish revolution was by historical standards relatively bloodless as compared especially with other republican revolutions like the United State and France. However, the revolution that brought Ataturk to power was a relatively mild one in terms of the immediate changes that unlike many revolutions which produced instant radical change. In Turkey, the radical change took place in the years after the revolution when Ataturk with hardly any bloodshed produced compulsory public secular education, scientific elevation in society, separation of mosque and state, gender equality including universal voting, change to western dress, elimination of the caliphate, speech and press freedom, and many others including changing the entire language to use the Latin alphabet instead of Arabic. No nation in history has gone thought more social and cultural change and modernized so fast as Turkey after its revolution. The result is the most modern and successful Islamic country in the world.
Referring to new laws that would be necessary after a proposed Declaration of Independence:
She was prescient. The amendment was never ratified by enough states.
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 she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35 (Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September 1873, seven months after the March inauguration). However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue; this may, however, be due to the fact that few took the candidacy seriously.
