Appeals Quote by Ida B. Wells

“The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.” quote by Ida B. Wells — Download Open image

“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 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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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the…

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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 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…

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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 weekly which…

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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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The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open…

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