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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders
IDA B. WELLS

Civilized Confess Country Hang Inability Nation No Only Protect Savage Save Women
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
IDA B. WELLS

Always Find Injustice Know Remedy Wrong
Lynching is color line murder.
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Color Line Lynching Murde
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Accuse Become Capital Country Crime Deserve Matter Osment Party Punishment Small Table Turn Women
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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Light Right Them Truth Turn Upon Way Wrong
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Arm Lynching Nothing Now Numbered Out Without
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Act Before Compare Educator Know Must People Press
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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Against Commission Country Crime Men More People Race Suffer White Women
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Bestial Country Race
I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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Consideration Done Feel Importance Minor Race Service Shall
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
IDA B. WELLS

Against Alike Church Close Concert Country Door Hall Hotel Open People Person Place Raedm Room Servant
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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Better Die Dog Had Injustice Like One Rat Trap
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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Body Century Crowd Cut Distribute Ear Finger Flesh Lynching Mom Nineteen Portion Souvenirs Strip Toe
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
IDA B. WELLS

Country Freedom Frequency Kept People Scourging Severity Slave Submissive Time
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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Arouse Bestial Contribute Country Demand Every Law People Prove Punishment Race Same Time Towards Way Work
When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.
IDA B. WELLS

Aggressor Biting Country Duet Dust Every Greatest Hite Life Man Respect Time

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