The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
IDA B. WELLSA Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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 appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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