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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 only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
IDA B. WELLS

Assault Been Country Defense Gum Only Self Time Used
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Country Grown Increase Intelligent Mob Spirit
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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Light Right Them Truth Turn Upon Way Wrong
White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
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Country Despoiler Lynch Men Offend Smile Succumb Virtue White Women
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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Back Ever Home Honor Place Rifle Winchester
Lynching is color line murder.
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Color Line Lynching Murde
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
IDA B. WELLS

Complete Intimidation Man Murder Soon Victory Violence White
The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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Country Cringe Do Insult Lynch More Outrage To Yield
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Act Before Compare Educator Know Must People Press
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
I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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Consideration Done Feel Importance Minor Race Service Shall
Virtue knows no color line.
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Color Know Line No One Liner Virtue
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 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
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 emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Country Dsaapered Emergency Exist Longer Lynch West

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