There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.
Susan B. AnthonyResolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. AnthonyI distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. AnthonyWhat words can express her [the white womanโs] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.
Susan B. AnthonyThe fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Susan B. Anthony