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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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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,
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Lynching is color line murder.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells
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