Ida B. Wells Quotes - Page 2

• El espíritu mafioso ha crecido con la creciente inteligencia de los afroamericanos.

  Ida B. Wells

  Afros, Espíritu

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2009). "Horrores sureños: La ley de Lynch en todas sus fases: Easyread Large Bold Edition", p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Home, School, Simple

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• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Gun, Self, Defense

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.71, Penguin

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• El linchamiento es un asesinato según la línea de color.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Color, Lines

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• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Race, Lynching

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

  Ida B. Wells

  Law, Rights, Giving

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• The 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. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• Lo que se convierte en un delito que merece la pena capital cuando se invierten las tornas es una cuestión de poca importancia cuando la mujer negra es la parte acusadora.

  Ida B. Wells

  Fiesta, Linchamiento, Castigo

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• Las leyes de mestizaje del Sur sólo operan contra la unión legítima de las razas; dejan al hombre blanco en libertad de seducir a todas las muchachas de color que pueda, pero es la muerte para el hombre de color que cede a la fuerza y los avances de una atracción similar en las mujeres blancas. Los hombres blancos linchan al afroamericano ofensivo, no porque sea un expoliador de la virtud, sino porque sucumbe a las sonrisas de las mujeres blancas.

  Ida B. Wells

  Girl, Men, Yield

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• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  Ida B. Wells

  Race, Afros

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). "On Lynchings", p.3, Courier Corporation.

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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

  Gobierno, Orden, Ley

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Arms, Can Do

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

  Ida B. Wells

  Character, Men, White Man

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• Volvía a casa todos los viernes por la tarde, recorriendo los diez kilómetros a lomos de una gran mula. Pasaba el sábado y el domingo lavando, planchando y cocinando para los niños y volvía a mi escuela rural el domingo por la tarde.

  Ida B. Wells

  Friday, Country, Children

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• 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

  Lynching, Law, Civilization

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