The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. - Ida B. Wells

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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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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. ― Malcolm X

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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. - Ida B. Wells

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

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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. - 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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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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If this work can contribute in any way toward 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, I shall feel I have done my race a service. - 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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