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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 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
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
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
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
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