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Great Speeches: Susan B. Anthony on Women's Right to Vote

Feb 18, 2020
speech by

susan

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anthony

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1873 this speech was given by

susan

b

anthony

before the court in defense of

women

's suffrage she was arrested for casting an illegal

vote

in the presidential election of 1872 friends and fellow citizens I stand before you this night under accusation for the alleged crime of having voted in the last presidential elections without having the legal

right

to vote, this afternoon it will be my job to demonstrate to you that in svaty not only did I not commit any crime, but that I simply exercised the rights of a citizen that guaranteed me . and all citizens of the United States by the national constitution beyond the power of any state to deny the preamble of the federal constitution says that we, the people of the United States, to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure internal tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity we ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
great speeches susan b anthony on women s right to vote
It was we, the people, not we white male citizens nor we male citizens, but we, all the people, who formed the Union and we formed it not to give the blessings of liberty but to secure them not to half of us themselves and half our posterity but to all the people, women and men, and it is a downright mockery to speak to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they had been denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this republican government. Democrat: The vote for any state to make sex a qualification should ever result in the distance of a whole half of the people. is to pass a bill or law ex post facto and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land, since the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.
great speeches susan b anthony on women s right to vote

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This government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed for them this government is not a democracy it is not a republic it is a hateful aristocracy a hateful oligarchy of sex the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe and the oligarchy of the wealth whether the rich rule the poor and Oleg our key of learning where the educated ruled the ignorant or even in a race oligarchy where the Saxons rule the Africans could be endured, but this Oleg our key of sex that converts to the father, to the brothers, to the sons, in the oligarchs over the mother and to the sisters in the wives and daughters of every home that holds all sovereign men to all women subjects it brings dissension discord and rebellion in every home of the nation Webster Worcester and Bouvier define a citizen as a person in the United States with the right to vote and hold office, the only issue left to resolve What must be resolved now is our women and I do not believe that any of our opponents have the audacity to say that they are not persons, then women are citizens and no State has the right to make any law or enforce ancient laws that restrict their privileges or immunities, therefore, all discrimination against women in constitutions and The laws of the different states are today null and void, precisely as is anyone who opposes blacks.
great speeches susan b anthony on women s right to vote

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