It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

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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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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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

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There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

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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. Wells

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