Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
IDA B. WELLSI shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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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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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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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 white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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Lynching is color line murder.
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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 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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In fact, for all kinds of offenses – and, for no offenses – from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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 emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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