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.

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

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.

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

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.

Lynching is color line murder.

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.