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How this speech affected America
About Susan B. Anthony
This speech by Susan B. Anthony encouraged the people of America to advocate for women's rights specifically the right for wen to vote.
Susan B Anthony was a women's rights activist, teacher, and co-founder of the woman suffrage foundation as well as the author of the women's rights newspaper, "The Revolution"
What events led up to the speech
In 1873/some women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. the speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. she was fined 100 dollars but refused to pay.
Susan B. Anthony's speech on women's right to vote
"The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make a law, or enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities"
Most impactful parts of the speech
Susan B. Anthony Speech- "Women's Rights to the Suffrage" - 1873
"Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote..."I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights."
It 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... not to give the blessing of liberty, but to secure them...but to the whole people - women as well as men.