Ida B. Wells Quotes

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

Ida B. Wells

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

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• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

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• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

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• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

  

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• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

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• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

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• Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

  

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• The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

  

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• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop