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Top 10 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quotes (2025 Update)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

1. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.”

4. “Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.”

5. “Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “Then these lynchers went quietly away and the bodies of the woman and three men were taken out and buried with as little ceremony as men would bury hogs.”

6. “Then these lynchers went quietly away and the bodies of the woman and three men were taken out and buried with as little ceremony as men would bury hogs.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “In nearly all communities wife beating is punishable with a fine, and in no community is it made a felony.”

7. “In nearly all communities wife beating is punishable with a fine, and in no community is it made a felony.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “There can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any consuming zeal to vindicate God’s law against miscegenationists of the most practical sort. The woman was a willing partner in the victim’s guilt, and being of the “superior” race must naturally have been more guilty.”

8. “There can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any consuming zeal to vindicate God’s law against miscegenationists of the most practical sort. The woman was a willing partner in the victim’s guilt, and being of the “superior” race must naturally have been more guilty.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “LYNCHING STATES Mississippi, 15; Arkansas, 8; Virginia, 5; Tennessee, 15; Alabama, 12; Kentucky, 12; Texas, 9; Georgia, 19; South Carolina, 5; Florida, 7; Louisiana, 15; Missouri, 4; Ohio, 2; Maryland, 1; West Virginia, 2; Indiana, 1; Kansas, 1; Pennsylvania, 1.”

9. “LYNCHING STATES Mississippi, 15; Arkansas, 8; Virginia, 5; Tennessee, 15; Alabama, 12; Kentucky, 12; Texas, 9; Georgia, 19; South Carolina, 5; Florida, 7; Louisiana, 15; Missouri, 4; Ohio, 2; Maryland, 1; West Virginia, 2; Indiana, 1; Kansas, 1; Pennsylvania, 1.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “The miscegnation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.”

10. “The miscegnation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt.”

11. “The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Quote: “The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation – that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.”

12. “The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation – that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.”

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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