Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage" - Formative Staff | Biblioteka

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What is the primary purpose of this speech?

to argue the $100 fine for illegally voting was unfair

to prove women are people and deserve the same voting rights as men

to confess to the crime of voting in the presidential election

to urge Black Americans to exercise their right to vote

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because fining women is illegal

because the Preamble gives rights to all people

because women are citizens

because women were previously given the right to vote in the Constitution

because states have the right to enforce their own laws

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"To them this government is not a democracy."
I stand before you tonight under indictment for the supposed crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote
"It is not a republic. It is a hateful aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe"
"Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office."

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