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. WELLSThere must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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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 city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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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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Lynching is color line murder.
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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.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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