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- Ida B. Wells, a prominent African-American journalist, activist, and suffragist, encapsulates her unwavering commitment to justice and truth in her famous quote: "I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said."
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Jun 15, 2024 · These famous quotes from Ida B. Wells cover injustice and racism and the importance of truth and virtue. Here are powerful and thought-provoking things she's said. 'The way to right wrongs...
- "I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said."
- “A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
- “In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.”
- “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.”
- “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.”
- “The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of the most awful lynchings and burnings this country has ever witnessed.
- “I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could and did fall in love with the pretty mulatto and quadroon girls as well as black ones, but they professed an inability to imagine white women doing the same thing with Negro and mulatto men.
- “During my stay here in your city [Chicago] I have been visited by several groups of your people—all of whom have recited the story of the wrongs and injustices heaped upon the race; all of them appealing to me to denounce these outrages to the world.
Wells's determination to confront systemic racism and sexism, even within the suffrage movement, revealed her unwavering dedication to intersectionality. Her legacy is one of tireless activism, inspiring future generations to courageously challenge injustice and elevate the voices of the marginalized.
Ida B. Wells The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Jun 30, 2023 · [hide] Ida B. Wells. During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul. It was to his interest to dwarf the soul and preserve the body. The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him.
