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

Lynching is color line murder..

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law..

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….

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..

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

The Afro-American is not a bestial race..

The appetite grows for what it feeds on..

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

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches..

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….

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….

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt w….

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them..

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….

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

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….

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 emergenc….