Ida B. Wells Quotes

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.

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• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

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• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

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• I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

  

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• 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
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