Ida B Wells Lynching Quotes

#1. The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation - that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

#2. Lynching is color line murder.

Ida B. Wells

#3. Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

Chris Guillebeau

#4. There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Ida B. Wells

#5. There has to be some self-denial.

Joe Paterno

#6. If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

#7. 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.

Ida B. Wells

#8. I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

Ida B. Wells

#9. And since I'm going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

Charlaine Harris

#10. My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Denise Juneau

#11. 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

#12. There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Agnetha Faltskog

#13. Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. 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.

Ida B. Wells

#15. The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

#16. Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

Thomas Malthus

#17. Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

David Benioff