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| Judge Hunt: | The Court must insist--the prisoner has been tried according to the established forms of law. |
| Miss Anthony: | Yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by men, interpreted by men, administered by men, in favor of men, and against women; and hence, your honor's ordered verdict of guilty; against a United States citizen for the exercise of "that citizen's right to vote," simply because that citizen was a woman and not a man. But, yesterday, the same man made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or you of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing. As then, the slaves who got their freedom must take it over, or under, or through the unjust forms of law, precisely so, now, must women, to get their right to a voice in this government, take it; and I have taken mine, and mean to take it at every possible opportunity. |
-- Susan B. Anthony (b. 1820-02-15, d. 1906-03-13), An account of the proceedings of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge ofillegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received, 1874 (underline indicates italics in original; bold is emphasis added because that bit reminded me of our government's recent prosecution of folks leaving water in the desert near the US/Mexico border -- Daphne)
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