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Men Quotes by Ida B. Wells
- The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the…
- 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…
- The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
- 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…
- In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without…
- 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…
- The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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