I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
IDA B. WELLSThe appetite grows for what it feeds on.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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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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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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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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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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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 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 only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in 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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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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