The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
Virtue knows no color line. - Ida B. Wells
Virtue knows no color line.
- Ida B. Wells
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. - Ida B. Wells
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. - Ida B. Wells
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly… - Ida B. Wells
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly…
Those who commit the murders write the reports. - Ida B. Wells
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. - Ida B. Wells
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; i… - Ida B. Wells
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; i…
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it. - Ida B. Wells
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
The appetite grows for what it feeds on. - Ida B. Wells
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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