The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

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

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