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Ida B. Wells has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to…
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a…
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by…
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the…
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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I…
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes…
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday…
— Ida B. Wells
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to…
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As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles…
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I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
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