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

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  People , Know , Act , Compare


Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Single , Men , Brave , Torture


I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Home , Children , School , Cooking


If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  People , Time , Work , Service


Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Country , Crime , Brutality , Mob


The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Will , Man , God , White


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

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Man , White , Violence , Victory


Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  More , Me , Race , Show


There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  About , Nothing , Now , Without


The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Author: Ida B. Wells - American Activist
  Body , Off , Crowd , Fingers


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