The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

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Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ― Clementine Holzinger

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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people. - 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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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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I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

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Racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism. ― Fred Hampton

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I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

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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 to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.- Muhammad Ali

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