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"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
"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."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon."
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