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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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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
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"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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"The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
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"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."
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"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
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"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
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"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
Race
"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
"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."
Character
"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."
Civilization
"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
"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
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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."
Discrimination
"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 South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
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