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Top 25 Ida B. Wells Quotes (2025 Update)

Ida B. Wells 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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “Those who commit the murders write the reports.”

2. “Those who commit the murders write the reports.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

3. “One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “Lynching is color line murder.”

4. “Lynching is color line murder.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The appetite grows for what it feeds on.”

6. “The appetite grows for what it feeds on.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.”

7. “Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “Virtue knows no color line...”

8. “Virtue knows no color line...”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.”

9. “There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.”

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

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.”

11. “I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”

12. “I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.”

15. “The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.”

17. “I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.”

18. “It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

19. “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

20. “The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.”

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

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.”

22. “The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The Afro-American is not a bestial race.”

24. “The Afro-American is not a bestial race.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.”

26. “The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.”

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

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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Ida B. Wells Quote: “The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

29. “The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

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