Ida B. Wells Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

  Ida B. Wells

  Home, Should Have, Black

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Ida B. Wells

  Friday, Country, Children

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  Ida B. Wells

  Home, School, Simple

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