Ida B. Wells

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

"Tell the truth and the devil take the hindmost."

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

"The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of the soul."

"If this work can be of any possible service in the way of showing our people the value of the right of suffrage, I shall feel glad."

"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

"We cannot escape our responsibilities by attempting to ignore them."

"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as equal of man."

"I have always felt that I had a work to do that I could not shirk."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

"Brave men and women are still needed to tell the truth."

"I cannot say that I believe in the literal rising of the dead."

"Southern white people would not acknowledge the equality of colored people."

"The Negro is cut off from a country which he has served and a people which he helped to build."

"We must look facts in the face."

"I felt I had a work to do that I could not shirk."

"It is impossible for justice to prevail as long as the guilty are not punished."

"There is much the modern Negro can learn from the life and struggle of Ida B. Wells."

"Not all can be leaders."

"What a revelation it would be to the world to know the truth about the character of Afro-Americans."

"I started out to show that we Negroes were not the lowest of the races."

"Each person must decide the kind of life that is truly livable."

"The most pathetic thing in the world is wasted talent."

"No man can degrade us except with our own consent."

"I have never felt so strongly the fact that my race is in need of the truth being told about them."

"One hour of justice is worth a lifetime of prayers."

"I have tried to make my life a fight to make the world better for my people."