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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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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"
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"There is nothing like race, is there?"
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"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."
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"In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year."
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"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
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"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."
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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
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Explore more quotes by Ida B. Wells
"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same."
Death
"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."
Woman
"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
Government
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
People
"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."
Man
"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
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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."
Nation
"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."
Civilization
"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."
People
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