“The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.”
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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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.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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