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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#back #big #came #children #cooking

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#appeals #been #conscience #effectual #ever

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#god #his #localities #man #many

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#feelings #games #gestures #internet #land

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#barbarity #been #country #during #effort

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#common-sense #concerned #dealt #feeling #had

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#ballot box #box #civil #civil rights #freedom

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#complete #fraud #intimidation #man #murder

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#arms #lynching #nothing #now #without

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually