Those who commit the murders write the reports.
IDA B. WELLSI felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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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Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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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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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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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 white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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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 people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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