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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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. - Ida B. Wells

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. - Ida B. Wells

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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

Ida B Wells Quotes

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