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Ida B. Wells Quotes
Page 2 of 2Ida B. Wells
July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist
|  The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. | | The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. | | The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. | | 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. | | The Afro-American is not a bestial race. | | 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. |
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