Virtue knows no color line.
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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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 people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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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 way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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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.
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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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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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Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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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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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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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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