Susan B. Anthony
American women's suffrage leader (1820 to 1906).
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A woman citizen who votes commits no crime but exercises a right no state may deny
It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that me thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
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A woman citizen who votes commits no crime but exercises a right no state may deny
It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that me thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
The Union was formed by the whole people, women as well as men, not only by white or male citizens
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
It is a mockery to speak of women enjoying liberty while denying them the ballot
And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
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A state that makes sex a voting qualification passes a bill of attainder or ex post facto law and violates the Constitution
For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
Without the vote, women are governed without their consent, under a government that is no democracy or republic for them
To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
Oligarchies of learning or race might be endured, but an oligarchy of sex brings discord into every home
An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
Women are persons and therefore citizens, so no state may make or enforce a law abridging their privileges
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
Every discrimination against women in state constitutions and laws is null and void, as discrimination against Black people is
Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
On Women's Rights to Vote (1873 speech) Said c. 1873
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