One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLSOur 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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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 city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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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 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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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 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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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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 appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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.
IDA B. WELLS