I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
IDA B. WELLS
IDA B. WELLS
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Virtue knows no color line.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Those who commit the murders write the reports.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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. WellsIda B. Wells 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. WellsIda B. Wells The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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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