Victoria Woodhull Quotes
Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
Woodhull, Victoria C. Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, 2 Nov. 1872.
The mine owners had hired goons as "guards" who had shot some of the protesting mine workers. Unlike most labor leaders, Mother Jones advocated retaliatory violence which was against her female, motherly stereotype. She was one of the very few female labor leaders, and one of the most militant.
Cunningham was part of an American Diplomatic Delegation negotiating with the Vietnamese. He had been an Naval Ace Fighter Pilot during the Vietnam War. He was notorious for his lack of tact.
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.
