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SOURCE: "Susan B. Anthony," in Great American Liberals, edited by Gabriel Richard Mason, Starr King Press, 1956, pp. 99-108.
In the following essay, Starr discusses Anthony's liberal political reform theories.
There is a sentence in our Constitution which reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. "
These words cast a long shadow. And as we peer into their historic past we discern the dominating image of Miss Susan B. Anthony, a great American, who died almost half a century ago, but whose spirit still lives in the liberal institutions of American political life.
The liberal analyzes and questions the status quo, the habit-patterns which cake society. Critical of what is, he is always searching, thinking and fighting for what ought to be. He doesn't want society stood on...
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