Susan B Anthony Trial Speech The People Speak

Women had long been denied the right to vote, even after helping to gain the right to vote for blacks with the passage of the 15th Amendment in November 1872. Susan B. Anthony was one of the 14 women who defied the law to cast their vote in the presidential election. arrested for, quote, knowingly voting without having a law, right to vote quote and was found guilty, does the prisoner have anything to say why he won't

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out stin? Yes, your honor, I have many things to say, your denial of my citizen's right to vote is the denial of my right to consent as one of the governed the denial of my right to representation as one of the encumbered the denial of my right to a

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by a jury of my peers as a criminal against the law therefore the denial of my sacred right to life liberty property the court cannot allow the prisoner to proceed but your honor will not deny me this one poor privilege To protest against this arrogant outrage on my rights as a citizen, the court's sentence is that you pay a fine of 100 dollars and the costs of the accusation, with the permission of your honor, I will never pay a single dollar of your unjust penalty.

All the trading stock I own is a $110,000 debt incurred by publishing my newspaper The Revolution, whose sole purpose was to educate all women to do Precisely as I have rebelled against their unjust and unconstitutional man-made laws imposing fines They imprison and hang women while denying them the right to representation in government, and I will work hard and men to pay every dollar of that honest debt. but not one cent will go toward this unjust claim, and I will continue to earnestly and persistently urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.