"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

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"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

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"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

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"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

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"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."

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"Slow and steady wins the race."

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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

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"If this work can contribute in any way toward 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, I shall feel I have done my race a service."

Time

"The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes."

Man

"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."

Crime

"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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"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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"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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"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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"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."

People

"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."

Self

"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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