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Ida B. Wells

"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders."

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"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders."

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Donna Grant

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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Donna Grant

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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Donna Grant

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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Donna Grant

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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Donna Grant

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

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Donna Grant

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

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Donna Grant

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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Donna Grant

"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

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Donna Grant

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

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Donna Grant

"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

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Ida B. Wells
"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."

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Ida B. Wells
"If this work can contribute in any way toward 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."

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Ida B. Wells
"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."

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Ida B. Wells
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."

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Ida B. Wells
"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

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Ida B. Wells
"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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Ida B. Wells
"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."

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

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Ida B. Wells
"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."

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

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