Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. WellsThe 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.
Ida B. WellsThe appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. WellsThe South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells