Women's Tax Resistance in The United States
The women’s suffrage movement in the United States came to adopt some of the same techniques. Anna Howard Shaw said “I hold it is unfair to the women of this country to have taxation without representation, and I have urged to adopt a course of passive resistance like the Quakers instead of aggressive resistance. I say to the Government, ‘you may pick my pocket because you are stronger than I, but I’m not going to turn my pockets wrongside out for you.’ … I believe that the spirit of ‘no taxation without representation’ that resulted in the Revolutionary War is inherent and just as actual in the women of the country as it was then in the men of the country.”
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