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

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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. - Ida B. Wells

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. - Ida B. Wells

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. - Voltaire

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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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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. - Ida B. Wells

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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