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 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

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

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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

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And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ― Leo Tolstoy

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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. - Ida B. Wells

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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

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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race. - Ida B. Wells

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