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

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

Virtue knows no color line.

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

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.

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.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.