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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'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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