I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLSThe 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.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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 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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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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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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 doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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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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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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