Ida B. Wells - Lynching Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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