Grade 12 · Speech
Is It a Crime for a Citizen to Vote?
Friends and Fellow-citizens: I stand before you to-night, under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.
From an address by Susan B. Anthony (1873) · Address of Susan B. Anthony (often titled "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?"), Susan B. Anthony (1873)
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