"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."

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Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.16, Courier Corporation

Ida B. Wells

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“No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.”
“There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison,”
“Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like.”

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“Youâ€™re crazy,â€ said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. â€œThey said that about all the great visionaries.â€ â€œYou know who else they said it about?â€ Angela demanded. â€œAll the actual crazy people.”
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.”
“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.”
“How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me â€” namely that Adam is our Father and God â€”...”
“People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.”

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