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Lynching is color line murder.


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There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.



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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.



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A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.



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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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