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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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The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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All Appeal Been Conscience Effectual Ever Made Man Pocket White
The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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Country Dsaapered Emergency Exist Longer Lynch West
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
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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Accuse Become Capital Country Crime Deserve Matter Osment Party Punishment Small Table Turn Women
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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Light Right Them Truth Turn Upon Way Wrong
Lynching is color line murder.
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Color Line Lynching Murde
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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Brutalized Degree Foundation Government Inhabitantm Very Law Order Own Realize South
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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Country Cringe Do Insult Lynch More Outrage To Yield
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
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
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
I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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Consideration Done Feel Importance Minor Race Service Shall
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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Assault Been Country Defense Gum Only Self Time Used
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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Civilized Confess Country Hang Inability Nation No Only Protect Savage Save Women
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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Against Attract Free Law Leave Legitimate Man Miscegenation Only Operate Race Seduce South Union White Women
Virtue knows no color line.
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Color Know Line No One Liner Virtue

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