Ida B. Wells

"The people who love peace must learn to organize with the same enthusiasm as the people who love war."

"We must have justice or we will have no peace."

"Nothing is more important than your integrity and your self-respect."

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

"I have always worked for equality and justice for all people."

"Our greatest asset is our ability to unite as a people."

"The mob spirit is the most dangerous force in a civilized nation."

"Education is the most powerful tool we have to change the world."

"Lynching is a deliberate, unprovoked murder of the defenseless."

"The colored people of this country have not been treated fairly."

"We must speak truth to power, even when our voices shake."

"Self-respect is a necessity before we can command respect from others."

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it."

"In this age of enlightenment, such barbarism is intolerable."

"Our duty is to expose the truth, however painful it may be."

"The American people must know what is happening in their country."

"I would rather go down in history as one lone black woman who dared to tell the truth."

"Civilization is not measured by the color of a man's skin."

"We cannot build a just society on a foundation of lies."

"The pen is mightier than the sword in fighting for justice."

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"We must be willing to sacrifice for the cause of justice."

"The truth about lynching must be told until the world listens."

"I have devoted my life to uncovering the injustices perpetrated against my people."

"Fear is the tool of oppression, but courage is the tool of liberation."

"If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this record and causing the user of the whip and the gun to cease."

"We must demand justice, not beg for it."

"The world must know the truth about what happens to innocent people."

"I write for those who cannot speak for themselves."

"Indifference to injustice is a form of complicity."