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. 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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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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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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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way… so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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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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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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