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“Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.” quote by Ida B. Wells — Download Open 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 many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.”

Ida B. Wells

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

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

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Lynching is color line murder.

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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 new system…

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

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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 the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor…

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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.…

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Virtue knows no color line.

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