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.
IDA B. WELLSBrave 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.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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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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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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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 felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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