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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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"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder."
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"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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"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
"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
"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."
Nation
"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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"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."
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"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
People
"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
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"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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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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