Ida B. Wells - White Quotes

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival,

Ida B. Wells
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

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

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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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During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul.... While slaves were scourged mercilessly. the white owner rarely permitted his anger to go so far as to take a life, which would entail upon him a loss of several hundred dollars.. But Emancipation came and the vested interests of the white man in the Negro's body were lost.

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Nobody in this section of the country believes in the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women. 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.

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The Negro has been too long associated with the white man not to have copied his vices as well as his virtues.

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