Brutality Quote by Ida B. Wells

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it…

— Charles Eliot Norton

In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the…

— Veerappa Moily

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to…

— Hannah Arendt

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

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

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

— 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

Lynching is color line murder.

— 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

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn