Ida B. Wells Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931
Birthday: July 16
Death: March 25
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.
source: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation
topic: Running, Home, Men, Outraged, American Life, Aggressors
