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

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

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.

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.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

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

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.