Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
IDA B. WELLSIt is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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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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.
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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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.
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