Ida B. Wells Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931

Topics

CountryCrimeBrutalityFuryInsane

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

Joan Van Ark

BrotherHouseUpMarkStillLives

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FeelChoiceWriteLittleI Feel

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Andrew Jackson

ControlEndHandsYouFindBecome

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum.

Stephen Merchant

TimeCulturePeopleThinkDownWay

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

Travis Fimmel

CarWalkHouseBuildFixGuy

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

PoetryCloudsMeFeelSomething

You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

Roberta Williams

PeopleEnjoyYouKindHorrorDecide

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Mary Tyler Moore

CourageDiabetesIndependentAlways

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

KnowledgeMeYearsInspiredMagical

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

Michiko Kakutani

TruthWarPeopleYearFirstBeing

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.

Monica Johnson

TeacherHumbleWillNeverHuman

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Drew Brees

TimeTogetherTeamLongRunRight

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