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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.Ida B. Wells
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.Ida B. Wells
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.Ida B. Wells
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.Ida B. Wells
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.Ida B. Wells