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.

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

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 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.

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

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

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