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Ida B Wells Quotes

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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 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 Quotes) What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.  (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 Quotes) It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.  (Ida B Wells Quotes) No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders  (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 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 Quotes) The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American  (Ida B Wells Quotes) I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way  (Ida B Wells Quotes) What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party  (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 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 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 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 Quotes) Virtue knows no color line  (Ida B Wells Quotes) The appetite grows for what it feeds on  (Ida B Wells Quotes) The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them  (Ida B Wells Quotes) The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder  (Ida B Wells Quotes) There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it  (Ida B Wells Quotes) One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap  (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 Quotes) The white man’s dollar is his God, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities  (Ida B Wells Quotes)