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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. — Ida B. Wells

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, — Ida B. Wells

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

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells

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

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. — Ida B. Wells

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. — Ida B. Wells

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.

-African Proverb — Nicholas D. Kristof

If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals. — Anonymous

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells

Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart. — Wolfgang Weingart

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches. — Ida B. Wells

If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win. — Jens Voigt

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed. — Christopher Moore

You've now got a reputation as a scary motherfucker with no limits when it comes to your kid and your pack." The — Nalini Singh

The best thing about London is Paris, — Diana Vreeland

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. — Juvenal

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. — Ida B. Wells

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith

Those who commit the murders write the reports. — Ida B. Wells

The heart is a bloody thing. — Toby Barlow

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. — Ida B. Wells

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

I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady. — Shannon Hale

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. — Ida B. Wells

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west. — Ildar Abdrazakov

so he sat smoking on the sofa with the lower trouser leg hanging empty towards the floor, lost in thought. — Robert Galbraith

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. — Ida B. Wells

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. — Ida B. Wells

I find I don't learn a lot while talking — Louis Mario N. Lipp

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life - fears — James Redfield

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. — Ida B. Wells

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

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. — Ida B. Wells

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

The appetite grows for what it feeds on. — Ida B. Wells

Lynching is color line murder. — Ida B. Wells