VICTORIA WOODHULL
A Real Success
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"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." -Victoria Woodhull
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Captivating an audience with her words
Victoria was an influential speaker, as we can see here where she is captivating an audience. The eyes of everyone in the room locked onto Victoria's words tell us that she is being taken seriously in this male dominated setting. Victoria and her sister Tennessee were influential speakers and suffragists, advocating for free love, women's voting rights, and other political issues for women.
Depiction of Devil Victoria
Victoria, although influential, was not well liked by the media. We can see here the media portray Victoria as the devil, and turning her back on her fellow women. This is one reason Victoria and Tennessee have been forgotten throughout time, she was not well liked during her own time. Had Victoria been more liked by the press, perhaps she would be as well remembered as some of the other influential women.
"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." -Victoria Woodhull
Media Betrayals
The media frequently mistreated the sisters. They assumed since Vanderbilt helped them, they were gold-diggers. The media is one reason we do not remember the sisters the way we should. As mentioned in the previous slide, the sisters were not liked during their time. This is because of their constant challenging of the male patriarchy in place during their lifetimes.
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The Present Crisis
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the lift hand and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever ‘twixt that darkness and the light.
Careless seems the great avenged; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness ‘twixt old systems and the word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet the scaffold sways the Future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping waten above his own.
-Victoria Woodhull