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

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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

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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

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again. ― W. C. Fields

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

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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. - Ida B. Wells

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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

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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 thus the backbone of the South. - Ida B. Wells

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