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"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."

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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 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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"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so."

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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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"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."

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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."

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"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."

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