The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.… — 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
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
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
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
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
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
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
