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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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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. WELLS

Although Barbarity Daughter During Effort For Increase Last Lynching Number Philanthropic Single Steadily Twenty Year
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLS

Better Die Dog Had Injustice Like One Rat Trap
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
IDA B. WELLS

Commit Murder Report Write
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Emblis Heart Know Lynching Make Mouthpiece Often Only Own Story Told Way
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Body Century Crowd Cut Distribute Ear Finger Flesh Lynching Mom Nineteen Portion Souvenirs Strip Toe
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Country Extremely Face Felt Follow Goal Patch Responsibility Rough Show World
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.
IDA B. WELLS

All Death Fact Judge Jury Kind Men Misdemeanors Murder Offense Put Without Women
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
IDA B. WELLS

Against Avail Character City Country Dare Demonstrate Himself Man Neither People Person Protect Rival Stand
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
IDA B. WELLS

Arm Lynching Nothing Now Numbered Out Without
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
IDA B. WELLS

Act Before Compare Educator Know Must People Press
The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
IDA B. WELLS

Country Dsaapered Emergency Exist Longer Lynch West
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. WELLS

Against Attract Free Law Leave Legitimate Man Miscegenation Only Operate Race Seduce South Union White Women
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
IDA B. WELLS

Appetite Feed Grow One
I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
IDA B. WELLS

Consideration Done Feel Importance Minor Race Service Shall
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
IDA B. WELLS

Country Grown Increase Intelligent Mob Spirit
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. WELLS

Black Country Every Home Honor Lessons People Person Pinder Place Protection Refuse Teacher Well

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