"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."

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Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2015). “The Red Record: Top Crime Collections”, p.2, 谷月社

Ida B. Wells

#Intimidation Quotes #Submissive Quotes #Slave Quotes

“This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.”
“your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
“The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.”
“The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.”
“Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.”
“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".”
“Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.”
“Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.”

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