Racism Quotes 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…

— Ida B. Wells

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

— Ida B. Wells

Lynching is color line murder.

— 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…

— 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…

— Ida B. Wells

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Ida B. Wells

Virtue knows no color line.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ida B. Wells