The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
IDA B. WELLSI 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.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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 only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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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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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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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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Brave 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.
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