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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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Lynching is color line murder.
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Color Line Lynching Murde
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Act Before Compare Educator Know Must People Press
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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Appetite Feed Grow One
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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Better Die Dog Fell Fight Had Injustice One Rat Tarp
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Arm Lynching Nothing Now Numbered Out Without
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Country Grown Increase Intelligent Mob Spirit
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Bound Brave Even Feeble Gagged Gather Individual Make Men Murder Resistance Single Thousand Torture
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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Assault Been Country Defense Gum Only Self Time Used
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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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.
IDA B. WELLS

Against Attract Free Law Leave Legitimate Man Miscegenation Only Operate Race Seduce South Union White Women
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.
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Against Country Fallen Upon Know More Race Seem Sinned Sinning Somebody
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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All Appeal Been Conscience Effectual Ever Made Man Pocket White
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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Better Die Dog Had Injustice Like One Rat Trap
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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Commit Murder Report Write
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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Country Despoiler Lynch Men Offend Smile Succumb Virtue White Women
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,
IDA B. WELLS

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