Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

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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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Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings. — Jagdish Joghee

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

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. - 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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Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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