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

- 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…

- Ida B. Wells

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

- Ida B. Wells

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

- 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…

- Ida B. Wells

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

- Ida B. Wells

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

- Ida B. Wells