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By Susan B. Anthony

The great heroine of women's voting rights simply and eloquently explains the reason every American woman has the right to vote. She begins, "Friends and fellow-citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election, without haveing a lawful right to vote." Referencing the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, she clearly states her case, and proves to all that women had every right to cast a ballot in an election. "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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half or ourselves adn the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men!"

approx. 5-7 min.