Ida B. Wells Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  Ida B. Wells

  Party, Lynching, Punishment

• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Race, Lynching

• 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

  Country, Lynching, Insane

  "Crime and Punishment in America". Book by David B. Wolcott and Tom Head, p. 144, 2010.

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