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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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.
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995)
A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul. It was to his interest to dwarf the soul and preserve the body.
The Red Record (1895)
The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right.
The Red Record (1895)
Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.
The Red Record (1895)
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.
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.
If labor is withdrawn capital will not remain. The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Southern Horrors and Other Writings (1892)
A religious staying off of the growing evil of the race — the excursion business — will do more to overthrow the odious Jim Crow laws of our statute books than all the railroad suits which are prosecuted.
Requirements of Southern Journalism (1892)
So frequent and serious has the grave charge of rape become, there should be full investigation of every such accusation which is considered sufficient excuse for the most diabolical outrage and torture.
Requirements of Southern Journalism (1892)
The birth of letters was witnessed on the Dark Continent, but centuries of intervening darkness have removed most of the traces of fabled lore, wealth and prowess of the ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians and Ethiopians.
The Afro-American in Literature (1892)
Gentlemen of the National Press Association, you have the press — what will you do with it? Upon your answer depends the future welfare of your race. Can you stand in comparative idleness, in purposeless wrangling, when there is earnest, practical, united work to be done?
Requirements of Southern Journalism (1892)