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"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

"I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove."

"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."

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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."

"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."

"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."

"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 appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."

"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."

"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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