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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.
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The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.
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The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.