Ida B. Wells (American - Activist)
July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931
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.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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.
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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