Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
IDA B. WELLSThose who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
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The 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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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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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 way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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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Virtue knows no color line.
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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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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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