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Men may concede that public sentiment, and not law, is the cause of the discrimination of which we justly
complain and the resultant disabilities under which we labor.
If this be so, then such public sentiment needs penal correction, and should be regulated by law.

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“These people have struggled longer and labored harder, and have made more of the raw material than any people in the world.”

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There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

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My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere,

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We want peace and good-fellowship in the South and throughout the country; we want race lines and sectional feelings blotted out and buried forever.

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"I think the statistics will prove that there is as much virtue among the Negroes as among the whites."

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What you give to one class you must give to all. What you deny to one class, you deny to all.

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It is necessary for the strong arm of the law to interpose and protect the people in their lives, liberty, and property

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All that we ask is equal laws, equal legislation, and equal rights throughout the length and breadth of this land.

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“If [an African American] is a man, he is entitled to all the rights and privileges of any other man. There can be no grades of citizenship under the American flag.”

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I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens

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"We will not forget our instincts for freedom nor our love of country."

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"America will not die. As the time demands them, great men will appear, and by their combined efforts render liberty and happiness more secure. The people will be ready and answer in every emergency that may arise."

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"You could not prevent [Black people] from dancing unless you kept them continually tied; you could not prevent them from singing unless you kept them continually gagged; you could not prevent them from being eloquent unless you deprived them of the power of speech; but you could and did prevent them from becoming educated for fear that they would equal you in every other respect; for no educated people can be held in bondage."

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"[If we allow ex-Confederates to hold office] I venture to prophesy you will again have trouble from the very same men who gave you trouble before."

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"We must drive out these hell-hounds [racial justice activists] and go in for peace between the two races in the South."