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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.

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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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When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.
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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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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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The appetite grows for what it feeds on.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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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 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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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
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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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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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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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