The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
IDA B. WELLSThe mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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
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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 South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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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.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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