"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American." ― Ida B. Wells Topic(s): Intelligence More From Ida B. Wells "In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same." "I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon." More In Intelligence "I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."― George Woodcock "So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don’t respect their intelligence."― Eriq La Salle "If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence."― Paul Bremer