Ida B Wells Lynching Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — 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

There was a sense that the one true theory had been discovered. Nothing else was important or worth thinking about. Seminars devoted to string theory sprang up at many of the major universities and research institutes. At Harvard, the string theory seminar was called the Postmodern Physics seminar.
This appellation was not meant ironically. — Lee Smolin

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation - that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward. — Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Happy Friday! Happiness begins with a loving heart! Open your heart and share time with those who warm your heart and make you smile! — Tracey Edmonds

Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God. — Rick Warren

sometimes looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow, is like looking for the good in people — Gloria Garcia

If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women. — Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about. — David Hume

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. — Candace Bushnell

I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do. — Daniel Cudmore

Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God ... — Joseph Prince

I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.
"What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.
"On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."
And for the first time, she knew it was true. — Soman Chainani

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them. — Dallin H. Oaks

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. — Ida B. Wells

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home. — Alex Pettyfer

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. — Ida B. Wells

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way. — Rachel Boston

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful. — David Bowie

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

Lynching is color line murder. — Ida B. Wells

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He dreaded the supermarket line chitchat. He waited until the postal service lady had knocked on the door, left the package, and gotten in her vehicle to open his door. His dog dying had been bad, I could tell, but the worst part for him had been trying to figure out how to handle the pity of the vet assistants. — Maggie Stiefvater