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 a war 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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and herself (1882).
Speaking on May 14, 1863, at a national convention of the Woman’s National Loyal League.
