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

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

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

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.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.