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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

Ida B. Wells's Popular Quotes

Virtue knows no color line.

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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

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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…

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Those who commit the murders write the reports.

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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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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…

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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

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