What Ida B. Wells thinks about motivation

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American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931); author of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

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   Our readingAppealing to white men's pockets works better than appealing to their conscience

   Their wordsThe appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is to be gained by a further sacrifice of manhood and self-respect.

   ↗Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book