There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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 of an insane mob.
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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 emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.