Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
IDA B. WELLSThe more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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Virtue knows no color line.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way… so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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