The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
IDA B. WELLSThe 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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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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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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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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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.
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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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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Lynching is color line murder.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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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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 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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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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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