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Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association before the Committee on the Judiciary, Monday, January 18, 1892 Quotes by Susan B. Anthony: Context & Meanings

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I never call myself old because I shall be young until the crack of doom.

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“I never call myself old because I shall be young until the crack of doom.”

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Anthony humorously refuses to let chronological age define her sense of energy or continued participation in the suffrage cause.

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House Committee on the Judiciary woman-suffrage hearing, January 18, 1892. The Library of Congress preserves the official eight-page hearing pamphlet and confirms Anthony among its speakers; the exact interjection is reported in History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, edited by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper and represented by Project Gutenberg #29870. Anthony makes the remark at the close of Lucy Stone’s argument while introducing Isabella Beecher Hooker. It is Anthony’s live speaker voice within a multi-speaker hearing.

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