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By Susan B. Anthony
Your denial of my citizen’s right to vote, is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed, the denial of my right of representation as one of the taxed, the denial of my right to a trial by a jury of my peers as an offender against law, therefore, the denial of my sacred rights to life, liberty, property and—
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- An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, 1874 · p. 82
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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 words to the court at the end of her trial in Canandaigua, New York, in June 1873, after Judge Ward Hunt directed a guilty verdict for voting in the 1872 presidential election (women could not legally vote). The trial book prints the exchange with the judge as a transcript.