A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
IDA B. WELLSThe white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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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 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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The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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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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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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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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 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 alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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