The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
IDA B. WELLSWhite 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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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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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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
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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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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards 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,
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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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