Ida B Wells Quotes
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Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.
— James Sheridan Knowles
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
— Jennifer Damiano
Then came October, full of merry glee.
— Edmund Spenser
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
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
Those who commit the murders write the reports.
— Ida B. Wells
Nature is the greatest developer of art.
— Anna Pavlova
Lynching is color line murder.
— Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
— Ida B. Wells
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
— Lisa Jakub
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
— Ida B. Wells
The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
— Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
— 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 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
