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. 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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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
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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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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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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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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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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Virtue knows no color line.
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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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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.
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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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