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. WELLSI shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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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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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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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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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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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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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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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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