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“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

Quote by Ida B. Wells

Book:Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

This compilation includes Wells-Barnett's writings on racial injustice, lynching, and women's rights, showcasing her pivotal role in the civil rights movement. more

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Ida B. Wells was an American journalist, teacher, and activist who played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. She is best known for her investigative reporting on the lynching of African Americans and her advocacy for women's rights. more

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“Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.”

Country Hours Crime Creatures Insane Our Country Fury Brutality Unspeakable Lynching Outburst

Author:Ida B. Wells

“The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.”

Body Cutting Century Ears Fingers Crowds Flesh Portions Toes Nineteenth Century Lynching Souvenirs

Author:Ida B. Wells

“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”

Men Individual Murder Bravery Brave Bounds Defense Resistance Torture Brave Man Lynching

Author: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.”

Shows Seems Race Fallen Sinning Afros

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

Men Made White Conscience Appeals Pockets White Man

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.”

Matter Moments Party Crime Tables Punishment Deserving Capital Punishment Lynching Accusing Small Moments

Author:Ida B. Wells

“Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.”

Years Has Beens Country Lasts Force Numbers Effort Moral Twenties Slaughter Philanthropic Lynching Wholesale Barbarity

Author:Ida B. Wells

“The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.”

Should Has Beens Spirit Should Have Vote Universal Murder Absolutes Satisfied Avoided Should Have Been Menace Suppression Suffrage Lynching Universal Suffrage Butchery

Book:The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Source: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

“Being number two sucks.”

Two Motivation Numbers Tennis Tennis Player

Author:Andre Agassi

“We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.”

Years Materials Source Weapons Iraq Nuclear Acquire Capability Nuclear Weapons Indigenous Fabricate

Author:John Bolton