The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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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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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.
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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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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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Lynching is color line murder.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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