Susan B. Anthony
American women's suffrage leader (1820 to 1906).
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Their wordsIt 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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Our reading
The Union was formed by the whole people, women as well as men, not only by white or male citizens
Their wordsIt 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.
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Their wordsAnd 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.
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Their wordsFor 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.
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Their wordsTo 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.
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Their wordsAn 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.
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Their wordsBeing 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.
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Their wordsHence, 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.
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