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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

Ida B. Wells
Heart, Lynching, Stories
Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.