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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Mentally I am here:

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• An illustrated quote from Ida B. Wells dated 1892 expresses her determination to fight injustice. The image features a portrait of Wells, holding a pistol, accompanied by text reflecting her resolve to confront oppression and seek the truth despite threats to her life. From her autobiography “Crusade for Justice:” “I had bought a pistol (the first thing after Tom Moss was lynched,) because I expected some cowardly retaliation from the lynchers. I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap. They had destroyed my paper, in which every dollar I had in the world was invested. They had made me an exile and threatened my life for hinting at the truth. I felt that I owed it to myself and my race to tell the whole truth. Having lost my paper, had a price put on my life, and been made an exile from home for hinting at the truth, I felt that I owed it to myself and to my race to tell the whole truth now that I was where I could do so freely.”