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. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
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. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
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. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
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. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. Ida B. Wells Read Quote
