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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.
IDA B. WELLS

All Appeal Been Conscience Effectual Ever Made Man Pocket White
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
IDA B. WELLS

Country Grown Increase Intelligent Mob Spirit
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 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
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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Commit Murder Report Write
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Against Alike Church Close Concert Country Door Hall Hotel Open People Person Place Raedm Room Servant
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
IDA B. WELLS

Back Ever Home Honor Place Rifle Winchester
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
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
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
IDA B. WELLS

Always Find Injustice Know Remedy Wrong
When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.
IDA B. WELLS

Aggressor Biting Country Duet Dust Every Greatest Hite Life Man Respect Time
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLS

Better Die Dog Fell Fight Had Injustice One Rat Tarp
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. WELLS

Brutalized Degree Foundation Government Inhabitantm Very Law Order Own Realize South
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
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
IDA B. WELLS

Box Civil Rights Country Freedom Give Law Resented South Vballot
Lynching is color line murder.
IDA B. WELLS

Color Line Lynching Murde

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