In 1962, JFK urged Americans to vote in the midterm elections, which also fell on November 6. We encourage you to vote, too! pic.twitter.com/A81NOUA9cL
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November 1962, White House, Washington DC, USA

This was deliverered a few days after the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved on 28 OIctober 1962.

In these difficult days in the life of our country, I know every American is going to ask what he can do for his country.

Not everyone can serve in our armed forces, or in our national government, but there is one thing that we all can do.

And that is to demonstrate our faith in democracy and our strong belief in freedom.

Next Tuesday, November 6th is Election Day.

I hope every American will vote. Will vote for the candidate and party of his choice, but vote!

In that way we can indicate to our country, to people our around the world who look to us, how strongly we value our freedom, how strongly we believe in democracy, how much we desire to indicate our faith in our country.

Tuesday November 6th. I hope all Americans will participate in the great process of democracy by voting.

In these difficult days in the life of our country, I know every American is going to ask what he can do for his country.

Not everyone can serve in our armed forces, or in our national government, but there is one thing that we all can do.

And that is to demonstrate our faith in democracy and our strong belief in freedom.

Next Tuesday, November 6th is Election Day.

I hope every American will vote. Will vote for the candidate and party of his choice, but vote!

Tuesday November 6th. I hope all Americans will participate in the great process of democracy by voting.

1872-73, stump speech, Monroe County, New York, USA

Anthony was fined $100 for casting an illegal vote in the 1872 Presidential election

Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight 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 rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.

The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

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 of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.

For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.

To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.

Anthony died in 1906, fighting to the end. Women's right to vote. was ratified by the 19th Amendment in August of 1920.