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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."
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"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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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