“The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony” performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal

as a prisoner, something to say why the sentence will not be pronounced yes, Your Honor, I have many things to say because in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled all the vital principles of our government, my natural rights, my civil rights, my rights political, my judicial rights. all are ignored equally, stripped of the fundamental privilege of citizenship. I am demoted from the status of citizen to that of subject and not only I individually but all my sexes are, according to your verdict of honors, condemned to political subjugation under this so-called Republican form of government the court cannot hear an essay of argument that the lawyer of the prisoner has already consumed three hours in the presenter, with your permission, your honor.

I am not discussing the issue, but simply stating the reasons why no judgment can be pronounced against me. Your denial of my citizen right to vote is the denial of my right to consent as one of the governed. The denial of my right to representation. is one of the burdened denial of my right to a trial by a jury of my peers as a criminal against the law, therefore the denial of my sacred right to life, liberty, property and the court cannot allow let the prisoner continue, but your lordship will not deny me this unique and poor privilege of protesting against this high-handed outrage on my citizen rights.

The court must insist that the prisoner has been tried according to established forms of law, yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by men, interpreted by men, administered by men for men and against men. women and therefore your Lordships ordered a guilty verdict against an American citizen for the exercise of the citizen's right to vote simply because that citizen was a woman and not a man but yesterday the same man made forms of law declared it a crime punishable by a fine of one thousand dollars and six months in prison to give a glass of cold water, a crust of bread, or a shelter for the night to a gasping fugitive on his way to Canada, and every man or woman in whose veins ran a drop of human sympathy violated that perverse law without taking into account the consequences and was justified in doing so as then the slaves who obtained their freedom had to appropriate it, under or through unjust forms of the law, precisely now women must take it to obtain the right to a voice in this government and I have taken mine and I plan to take it at every moment. opportunity, the court must insist that the sentence of the court is that you pay a fine of 100 dollars for the cost of the prosecution, with the permission of his honor, I will never pay a single dollar of your unjust penalty.

All the shares I own are a debt of 10,000 dollars in cord per pen, cured by the publication of my newspaper La Revolución, whose sole objective was to educate all women to do precisely what I have done, rebel against your laws unjust and unconstitutional man-made laws that fine, imprison and hang women while denying them the right to representation in government and I will work as hard as I can to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny will go toward this claim. unjust and I will continue to seriously and persistently urge all women to recognize in the practice of the old revolutionary maxim resistance to tyranny is obedience to you