Ida B. Wells Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.”

“The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.”

“Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.”

“The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.”

“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”