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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. - Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Shotgun
Mankind
Terry Pratchett
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. - Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Sword
Mightier
Terry Pratchett
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. - Terry Pratchett
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Called
Passes
Terry Pratchett
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. - Terry Pratchett
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Oncoming
Lane
Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett
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Outside
Thinking
Terry Pratchett
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. - Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Late
Playing
Terry Pratchett
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Insane
Exclamation
Terry Pratchett
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
Localities
Stop
Ida B. Wells
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
Individual
Resistance
Ida B. Wells
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
Lynching
Arms
Ida B. Wells
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
Simple
Helpful
Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. - Ida B. Wells
Ida B Wells Quotes
Bestial
American
Ida B. Wells
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
Conscience
Punishment
Ida B. Wells
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
Assaulted
Used
Ida B. Wells
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
Necessary
Although
Ida B. Wells
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. - Ida B. Wells
Ida B Wells Quotes
Intelligence
Spirit
Ida B. Wells
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
Insane
Lynching
Ida B. Wells
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. - Ida B. Wells
Ida B Wells Quotes
Intimidation
Complete
Ida B. Wells
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
Sinned
Fallen
Ida B. Wells
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
Conscience
Effectual
Ida B. Wells
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