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.
IDA B. WELLSThus 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 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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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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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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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 Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
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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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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
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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 South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,
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The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
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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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Those who commit the murders write the reports.
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