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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.- Reba McEntire
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
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
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. – Elaine Agather
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. - Ida B. Wells
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. - Ida B. Wells
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
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. - Ida B. Wells
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. - Ida B. Wells
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
