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.
IDA B. WELLSThe mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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 doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
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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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It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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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.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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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 people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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