Warmashes

“The miscegnation 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.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, On Lynchings

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett