. . . in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of … - Susan B. Anthony

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We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Susan B. Anthony

. . . in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, mycivil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

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