Compare Quote by Ida B. Wells Download Open image “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” — Ida B. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compare Educator People
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society. — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
I learned that the public and the press don't need to know everything about you, or they might turn on you. — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press. — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact. — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in… — Candice S. Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share 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… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris. — Eustache Deschamps Copy Share Image
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and… — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image