I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLSThe way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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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.
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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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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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 way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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