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"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"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 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."
"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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