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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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- Nov 07, 2020