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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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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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Complete Intimidation Man Murder Soon Victory Violence White
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.
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All Death Fact Judge Jury Kind Men Misdemeanors Murder Offense Put Without Women
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Country Grown Increase Intelligent Mob Spirit
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Bestial Country Race
White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
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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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Against Commission Country Crime Men More People Race Suffer White Women
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.
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Emblis Heart Know Lynching Make Mouthpiece Often Only Own Story Told Way
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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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Better Die Dog Had Injustice Like One Rat Trap
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
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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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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap.
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Better Die Dog Fell Fight Had Injustice One Rat Tarp
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Absolute Alleged Country Menace People Suffrage Suppression Universal Vote
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.
IDA B. WELLS

Although Barbarity Daughter During Effort For Increase Last Lynching Number Philanthropic Single Steadily Twenty Year
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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