Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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.
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.
In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
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.