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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
"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."
"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
"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."
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."
"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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