Ida B. Wells Quotes

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. - 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. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. - Ida B. Wells

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

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. - Ida B. Wells

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. - Ida B. Wells

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. - Ida B. Wells

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

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