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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/it-is-extremely-rough-to-follow-through-with-my-goals-but-i-felt-a/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

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## More by Ida B. Wells

> [The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-nineteenth-century-lynching-mob-cuts-off-ears-toes-and-fingers/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-white-man-s-victory-soon-became-complete-by-fraud-violence/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [Lynching is color line murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/lynching-is-color-line-murder/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/although-lynchings-have-steadily-increased-in-number-and-barbarity/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/in-slave-times-the-negro-was-kept-subservient-and-submissive-by-the/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/there-is-nothing-we-can-do-about-the-lynching-now-as-we-are-out/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-appeal-to-the-white-man-s-pocket-has-ever-been-more-effectual/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-people-must-know-before-they-can-act-and-there-is-no-educator-to/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-afro-american-is-not-a-bestial-race-if-this-work-can-contribute/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/i-had-an-instinctive-feeling-that-the-people-who-have-little-or-no/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/thus-lynch-law-held-sway-in-the-far-west-until-civilization-spread/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [Virtue knows no color line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/virtue-knows-no-color-line/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-doors-of-churches-hotels-concert-halls-and-reading-rooms-are/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/the-alleged-menace-of-universal-suffrage-having-been-avoided-by-the/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

> [I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-b-wells/i-am-only-a-mouthpiece-through-which-to-tell-the-story-of-lynching/)

[Ida B. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-b-wells/)

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