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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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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 emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Country Dsaapered Emergency Exist Longer Lynch West
Virtue knows no color line.
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Color Know Line No One Liner Virtue
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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Against Commission Country Crime Men More People Race Suffer White Women
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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Accuse Become Capital Country Crime Deserve Matter Osment Party Punishment Small Table Turn Women
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
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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Appetite Feed Grow One
I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
IDA B. WELLS

Already Attack Bit Clearly Determine Little Lynch Possible Score Sell Take
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
IDA B. WELLS

Civilized Confess Country Hang Inability Nation No Only Protect Savage Save Women
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
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.
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Back Ever Home Honor Place Rifle Winchester
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Box Civil Rights Country Freedom Give Law Resented South Vballot
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
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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Country Freedom Frequency Kept People Scourging Severity Slave Submissive Time
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. WELLS

Absolute Alleged Country Menace People Suffrage Suppression Universal Vote

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