The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
IDA B. WELLS
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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.
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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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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 appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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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 shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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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 people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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