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citizen was a woman and not a man . . . . As then the slaves who
got their freedom had to take it over or under or through the
unjust forms of the law, precisely so now must women take it to
get their right to a voice in this government; and I have taken
mine, and mean to take it at every opportunity.

JUDGE Hunt-The Court orders the prisoner to sit down. It will not
allow another word.

Miss ANTHONY-When I was brought before your Honor for trial I
hoped for a broad interpretation of the constitution and its
recent amendments, which should declare all United States
citizens under its protecting aegis . . . . But failing to get
this justice, failing even to get a trial by a jury-not of my
peers-I ask not leniency at your-hands but rather the full rigor
of the law.

JUDGE HUNT-The Court must insist (here the prisoner sat down).
The prisoner will stand up. (Here Miss Anthony rose again.) The
sentence of the Court is that you pay a fine of $100.00 and the
costs of the prosecution.

Miss ANTHONY-May it please your Honor, I will never pay a dollar
of your unjust penalty . . . . And I shall earnestly and
persistently continue to urge all women to the practical
recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, "Resistance to
tyranny is obedience to God."