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Southerners who disapprove of lynching but stay silent are as guilty as the lynchers
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What Ida B. Wells actually said
- Ida B. Wells American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931)
The men and women in the South who disapprove of lynching and remain silent on the perpetration of such outrages, are particeps criminis, accomplices, accessories before and after the fact, equally guilty with the actual lawbreakers who would not persist if they did not know that neither the law nor militia would be employed against them.
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↗Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)gutenberg.org
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