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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 of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

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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