I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLSThose who commit the murders write the reports.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way… so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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Lynching is color line murder.
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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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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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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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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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 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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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