The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Ida B. Wells
- The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
- One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
- There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
- The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
- 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.
- 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.
- The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that 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. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
- 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.
- In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
- 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 (1862-1931) was an African American journalist, educator, and civil rights leader renowned for her anti-lynching crusade in the United States. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells gained her freedom through the Emancipation Proclamation.
She pursued education with fervor, later becoming a teacher. In 1884, she famously resisted segregation by refusing to leave a “whites-only” train car, which led her to become a vocal advocate for civil rights.
Wells co-founded the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, using her platform to investigate and expose the brutal realities of lynching. Her courage in the face of threats and violence propelled her to national prominence.
She was also a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. Wells’ legacy as a pioneering advocate for justice and equality continues to inspire generations.
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