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

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the man….

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

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 th….

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

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored g….

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or bec….

Lynching is color line murder..

The Afro-American is not a bestial race..

The appetite grows for what it feeds on..

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; i….

Those who commit the murders write the reports..

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

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press..

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….

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 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….

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….

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….

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..

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….