The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

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.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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.

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.