Those who commit the murders write the reports.
IDA B. WELLSThe 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.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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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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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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The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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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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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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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.
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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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.
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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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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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