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When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.

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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Arm Lynching Nothing Now Numbered Out Without
Lynching is color line murder.
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Color Line Lynching Murde
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
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Baby Believe Country Ever Honestly Make Nurse Only Political Throughout Travel Women
The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Act Before Compare Educator Know Must People Press
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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Always Find Injustice Know Remedy Wrong
Virtue knows no color line.
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Color Know Line No One Liner Virtue
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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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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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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In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
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It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
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