Ida B. Wells Quotes
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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Virtue knows no color line.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells Those who commit the murders write the reports.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells 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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