Quotes from authors born on Jul 16th
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.
Ida B. Wells
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Ida B. Wells
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
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. Wells
Thornton Wilder 
Theophile Gautier 
Jeff Buckley 
Joseph Beuys 
Kenneth Kaunda 
Paul Kurtz 
David Millar 
Christina Applegate