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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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"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
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"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
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"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."
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"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
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"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
Race
"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder."
Victory
"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."
Race
"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
Conscience
"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
"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."
Woman
"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
"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."
Time
"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
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"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same."
Death
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