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By Susan B. Anthony
It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union.
- Source
- An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, 1874 · Appendix, Address of Susan B. Anthony, p. 153
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- Internet Archive (Harvard University scan of the 1874 edition, Rochester: Daily Democrat and Chronicle Book Print)
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From Susan B. Anthony's address "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?", given in Monroe and Ontario counties, New York, before her trial in June 1873 and printed in the appendix of the 1874 account of the trial.