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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
