No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Quote by Ida B Wells

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

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

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

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

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

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

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and...

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and...

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there...

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a...

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so...

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so...

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training...

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training...

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

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

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

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories...

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories...

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

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