Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
IDA B. WELLSThe appetite grows for what it feeds on.
More Ida B. Wells Quotes
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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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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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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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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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 felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
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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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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 emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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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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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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