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.
IDA B. WELLSVirtue knows no color line.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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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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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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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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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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 people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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