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.
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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Lynching is color line murder.
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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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Virtue knows no color line.
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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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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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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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 white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and 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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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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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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 must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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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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