Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality

( 1871 ) Commentary by Bradley A. Skeen, Ph.D.

““I make the plain and broad assertion, that the women of this country are as much subject to men as the slaves were to their masters.” - Lecture on Constitutional Equality
“Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.” - Lecture on Constitutional Equality
“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 overthrow this bogus republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead, which shall not only profess to derive its power from the consent of the governed, but shall do so in reality.” - Lecture on Constitutional Equality

Cartoon depicting Victoria Woodhull as Mrs. Satan, advocating free love (Library of Congress)

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