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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.

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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

Ida B. Wells

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Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells
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Born: July 16, 1862
Died: March 25, 1931 (aged 68)
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