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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 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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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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 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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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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Virtue knows no color line.
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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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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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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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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