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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.
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More Quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
