Occupation: Journalist Birth: July 16, 1862 Death: March 25, 1931
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American..
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home..
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party..
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 serva….
Virtue knows no color line..
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home….
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense..
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled..
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 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 t….
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 th….
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..
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 t….
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through th….
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the c….
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been….
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, ….
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 intim….
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly….
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 o….
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder..