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.
IDA B. WELLSThere must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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