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We extend to her a cordial welcome, we offer her our hearty support. In suppressing Miss Wells paper, the Free Speech, tyranny has wrought a good work of which it little dreamed. The fetters placed upon truth in the South are here transformed into weapons against itself.

— Mary Church Terrell Introducing Ida B. Wells (1893)

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Tho thorny the path and rough the road, forward she pressed to do the work for the persecuted and afflicted which she felt called to perform.

Dedication of the New Mott School (1909)

The name of Lucretia Mott has been written in the history of this country which records the deeds of those who have spent their lives trying to lift their fellow men to a higher plane and relieve the suffering of the world in letters which can never fade.

Dedication of the New Mott School (1909)

We congratulate ourselves upon having two such efficient and zealous workers as Miss Wells and Mr. Fortune to address us tonight. The harvest truly is great but the labourers are few.

Introducing Ida B. Wells (1893)

What a fine thing it would be if the North were as loyal to what it claims to be its principles as the South to its views? p. 290

A Colored Woman in a White World (1940)

In Mr. T. Thomas Fortune of the New York Age we possess a journalist who has always felt this responsibility, who has always been a power for good, a journalist whose opinions have been an education and whose sentiments an inspiration to all earnest souls.

Introducing Ida B. Wells (1893)

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