"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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"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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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

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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."

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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 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."

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"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."

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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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"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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"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."

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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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"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense."

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