gender equality 5
- Oligarchies of learning or race might be endured, but an oligarchy of sex brings discord into every home
- A state that makes sex a voting qualification passes a bill of attainder or ex post facto law and violates the Constitution
Susan B. Anthony
American women's suffrage leader (1820 to 1906).
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What Susan B. Anthony says most about
government 4
- It is a mockery to speak of women enjoying liberty while denying them the ballot
- A state that makes sex a voting qualification passes a bill of attainder or ex post facto law and violates the Constitution
America 2
- The Union was formed by the whole people, women as well as men, not only by white or male citizens
- A woman citizen who votes commits no crime but exercises a right no state may deny
democracy 2
- A state that makes sex a voting qualification passes a bill of attainder or ex post facto law and violates the Constitution
- Without the vote, women are governed without their consent, under a government that is no democracy or republic for them
racism 2
- Every discrimination against women in state constitutions and laws is null and void, as discrimination against Black people is
- The Union was formed by the whole people, women as well as men, not only by white or male citizens