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

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

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“Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.”
― Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles

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“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

tags: history, lynching, racism, usa

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“There can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any consuming zeal to vindicate God’s law against miscegenationists of the most practical sort. The woman was a willing partner in the victim’s guilt, and being of the “superior” race must naturally have been more guilty.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record

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