There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. - Ida B. Wells

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. ― M.F.K. Fisher

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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. - Ida B. Wells

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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. Wells

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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before. - John Lewis

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. - Ida B. Wells

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