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The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

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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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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
Lynching is color line murder.
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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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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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Better Die Dog Fell Fight Had Injustice One Rat Tarp
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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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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Bound Brave Even Feeble Gagged Gather Individual Make Men Murder Resistance Single Thousand Torture
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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Against Avail Character City Country Dare Demonstrate Himself Man Neither People Person Protect Rival Stand
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
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 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
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Box Civil Rights Country Freedom Give Law Resented South Vballot
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
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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