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• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
• The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
• The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to…
• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
• In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a…
• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by…
• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the…
• I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I…
• The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
• A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,
• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes…

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