The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. Ida B. Wells More Quotes by Ida B. Wells More Quotes From Ida B. Wells The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. Ida B. Wells thus south backbone The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. Ida B. Wells stop man god white