The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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 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.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the...

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the...

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

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

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter...

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...