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"I have never got over it yet. They broke something inside of me. I cannot do work now, though I always made my living before in the barber shop, hauling wood,etc"
I chose this quote because it"s powerful in the sense they took his ability to work away, if he can't work then he can't support his family. SB

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" I told them that i would not do it if they would give me all the county worth " - M.V The reason why i picked this quote is because the man that got whipped it shows how brave he is to do what he wanted to do and doesnt show any weakness ,  how seriously people is taking the  election  . 

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" I told them that i would not do it if they would give me all the county worth " - M.V The reason why i picked this quote is because the man that got whipped it shows how brave he is to do what he wanted to do and doesnt show any weakness ,  how seriously people is taking the  election  . 

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The reason picked this quote was because it shows how much the right to vote meant to the African Americans. I also like the fact that he wasn't afraid to die for what he believed. And he didn't change his mind after being whipped or lie to stop being whipped.

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"If there was an election tomorrow Id vote the radical ticket" JL

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"If there was an election tomorrow Id vote the radical ticket" JL

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I think this is a powerful quote because it shows how passionate people were about standing up for what they believe even though we was chased off legislature he still kept his stance even after being whipped.

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"Yes sir, but they run me off during the election. They swore they would kill me if I stayed" LA

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"Yes sir, but they run me off during the election. They swore they would kill me if I stayed" LA

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This quote stuck out to me because after he was beaten almost to death, he still continued to run for the legislature- risking the violence torwards him.

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"I told them I would not do it if they would give me all the county was worth"  AH

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"I told them I would not do it if they would give me all the county was worth"  AH

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I see this quote to be a great representation about how seriously these elections were taken. To decline something as valuable as 5,000, which could have provided housing, food, etc. is a big deal. But he was passionate and stood for his word.

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"I do not care how many of them there are I am a republican and I expect to vote the ticket" JL

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"I do not care how many of them there are I am a republican and I expect to vote the ticket" JL

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Those where that mans last words the fact that so many people were killed while trying to vote is crazy and it seems like republicans did not fight back.

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"They Broke something inside of me" L.D.

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"They Broke something inside of me" L.D.

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This quote shows just how destructive these acts truly are. When we think of lynchings we think of the physical pain and the fear that come along with it. But as this quote shows us, it also destroys you inside, dealing damage so severe that it can never be fully healed. It sticks because its such a powerful statement about what it actually does to someone.

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A.V, "About two days before they whipped me they offered me $5,000 to go with them and said they would pay me $2,500 in cash if I would let another man go to the legislature in my place.

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A.V, "About two days before they whipped me they offered me $5,000 to go with them and said they would pay me $2,500 in cash if I would let another man go to the legislature in my place.

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The quote shows that sometimes the colored man had to make sacrifices in order to do something he wanted to do.

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at" FF

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at" FF

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This is an important quote because not only were colored people harmed for voicing their opinions, but anyone who expressed that they were for the Republicans were killed or in some way mistreated.

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VS- ¨[the Klansman] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead.¨ I chose this quote because it shows how gruesome and rude KKK members are. They were so dedicated to their cause that they didn´t even care that this mans family was in the room as well when they took him. It says later that one of the men put a gun to his daughters head and this scarred her for life. There is also the fact that this man himself went through his own type of pain a suffering this night all because he was going to vote for Grant. Grant still became president so was it really worth it?

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"They said to me, 'Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?'"       J.S.

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"They said to me, 'Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?'"       J.S.

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This quote sticks out to me because it shows me the lengths the KKK were willing to go to to restore white supremacy. Abram Colby was an African-american legislator. So, they took him out into the woods and beat him until they were sure he could not survive. That is how far they were willing to go just to prevent an interracial democracy from working. This is how white supremacists used terror to gain political power.

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" He expressed the belief that the reason these party's persisted in such acts is because no one would testify against them" JL

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" He expressed the belief that the reason these party's persisted in such acts is because no one would testify against them" JL

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That is how people do horrible things for a long time is when no one will speak against it Merrill is someone addressing the problem and taking action against it.

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A.V. "They would take a cannon and load it up with chains and leave it with the mouth pointing toward the crowd of colored people."

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A.V. "They would take a cannon and load it up with chains and leave it with the mouth pointing toward the crowd of colored people."

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They would basically load up a cannon and fire it at colored people, Almost to show they didn't have a voice nor any power.

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I was standing on the corner talking and some colored men came up, and the colored man says " I don't care how many are riding around, I am republican and expect to vote the ticket"
I chose this quote because he's brave enough to stand up for what he believes in, and was willing to tell anyone he believed in it. SB

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"My little daughter begged them not to carry me away."             J.O.

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"My little daughter begged them not to carry me away."             J.O.

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I chose this quote because it felt very real and something that I could relate to. The way that the man describes how it was the worst part of the experience, not even the whipping brought him down, it was only his love for his wife and child which held him back.

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at" AH

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at" AH

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Knowing the danger associated with this kind of upstanding, this man still has the courage to stand up and voice his opinion, his belief, I find to be quite phenomenal and, yet again, a bold statement to the importance of this situation to others.

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at." LA

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"Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at." LA

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Back then, republicans and democrats were  violent torwards each other and even more so if a republican was colored. When they spoke out their mind about voting, they were dehumanized and shot.

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A.V. "It is now left our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs"

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A.V. "It is now left our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs"

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The quote is basically saying that the public has to have their stuff in order and react to the result of violence anymore.

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"Just then a man walked up with a pistol and shot him." L.D.

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"Just then a man walked up with a pistol and shot him." L.D.

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This quote shows just how evil the kkk members were. It shows just how willing they were to kill just about every single black person in the US in order to win the election. It shows just how extreme they were and just how uncaring they were about the minority groups. This quote sticks because of how evil it shows extremists to be. (Not radicalists, but extremists.)

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Major Merrill expressed his regrets that bands of disguised men had recently been whipping and otherwise maltreating white and colored citizens of this section
I chose this because it states that
even white citizens were mistreated, not just blacks.SB

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" Let the public opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be afflicted with domestic disorder" FF

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" Let the public opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be afflicted with domestic disorder" FF

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Major Merrill thought that the public opinion would be enough influence to stop the violence and suppress further disturbance so that the military wouldn't need to get involved. He thought that the citizens would stand up but they feared for their lives and the lives of their families

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"The whole street was covered"      J.S.

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"The whole street was covered"      J.S.

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This quote is important because it shows how popular white supremacy was during reconstruction. After the Civil War ended, all slaves were freed. However, an enormous majority of white southerners were unhappy with this. We can see how important the issue of an interracial democracy was to white southerners with this quote. The quote shows that crowds of people in many towns were willing to take rights away from people in order to be in a powerful political position.

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"I am a republican and expect to vote the ticket." DRM

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"I am a republican and expect to vote the ticket." DRM

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I chose this quote because of how much courage that man must have had to say that. the fact that the democrat shot him is ridiculous. I cant understand how both sides are so passionate abut their beliefs and are willing to die for them.

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"They said they would carry the county or kill every nigger."           J.O.

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"They said they would carry the county or kill every nigger."           J.O.

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This was a very eye opening quote. In this quote it shows the length that the democrats, not just the KKK, were willing to go in the election to get the votes for the democratic party.

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"My little daughter begged them not to carry me away...She never got over it until she dies. That was the part that grieves me the most" FF

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"My little daughter begged them not to carry me away...She never got over it until she dies. That was the part that grieves me the most" FF

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The Klansman not only threatened the people who had political differences but their families too. They felt so strong about polls that they whipped him and frightened his wife and daughter.

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"They drew up a gun and actually frightened her to death. She never got over it until she died."  AG

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"They drew up a gun and actually frightened her to death. She never got over it until she died."  AG

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This quote shows that the men weren't able to bring him down or make any impact on his opinions. Letting the men whip him nearly to death didn't change what he wanted to believe in and that shows strength. The only moment where he was at a lack of strength was witnessing his daughter having to see her father in such a bad position. Knowing that his daughter tried so hard but was helpless in the situation.

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"Arresting the supposed guilty parties, to suppress acts of violence, as directed under the Ku-Klux act." LA

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"Arresting the supposed guilty parties, to suppress acts of violence, as directed under the Ku-Klux act." LA

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This act was created by the KKK

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"Major Merrill frankly stated that his sole object in asking a conference was that he might induce the influential citizens of the county to adopt prompt and decisive measures to suppress any further disturbance." AH

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"Major Merrill frankly stated that his sole object in asking a conference was that he might induce the influential citizens of the county to adopt prompt and decisive measures to suppress any further disturbance." AH

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He wanted the influential people in the community to be the people spreading the message. He feels as if these people will be more persuasive and will overall have a bigger impact on the community.

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VS- ¨They said they would carry the county or kill every nigger. They would carry it if they had to wade it in blood¨ How was it okay for all of these things to happening in society? White people who still believed in the confederacy and slavery thought and said they would carry their county in the vote to not put Grant as president. In modern society I think this is still kinda valid, everyone thinks they´re better than the next which isn´t right morally and should really matter in society´s values. This quote I also believe shows again that the KKK´s values were and always will be wrong and inhumane

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"To succeed in restoring quiet and order, men must no longer withhold their expressed and unequivocal disapprobation."        J.O.

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"To succeed in restoring quiet and order, men must no longer withhold their expressed and unequivocal disapprobation."        J.O.

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This is an interesting quote because it talks about how people need to speak out if they want the acts to stop, the irony is that if they tell about the acts they will be injured or killed.

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"It is now left with our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs."     J.S.

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"It is now left with our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs."     J.S.

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This quote is important because it shows us how to deal with the problem of southern terrorism. A community can end a thing like this, simply by saying it is wrong. After a statement like this, southern terrorism would have gone away, and the reconstruction era would have been more successful than it was. This is the way to cure most public issues. If the public wrongs anything, from southern terrorsim to Jim Crow laws, those problems will be resolved.

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"the Klu-Klux act comprehends all persons found in disguise." DRM

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"the Klu-Klux act comprehends all persons found in disguise." DRM

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I chose that quote because the fact that local officers did not try to arrest them or even testify against their illegal activities. The only reason that anything changed was because of Major Merrill. The moment the act was in place clan activity decreased immensely.

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"Just then a man walked up with a pistol and shot him. Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at."  AG

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"Just then a man walked up with a pistol and shot him. Pretty soon another colored man made some expression and he was shot at."  AG

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This quote shows how passionate colored people were about their opinions and how no respect was given to them. Colored people would rather get shot or hurt in some way rather than change what they think. Nobody cared what they thought, nobody cared about their opinions, but colored people didn't care if they disagreed. They stood up for what they believed in.

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"The worst thing was my mother, wife and daughter were in the room when they came." SB

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"The worst thing was my mother, wife and daughter were in the room when they came." SB

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This quote stands out in this reading because it shows how the root that drives people is still their life and the people they care about. This man does not chose to focus on the agony that has been instilled in him, or how the Klansmen have ruined his life, but how the whole ordeal affected his family. What hurt him most was not his pain but the emotional hurt that his capture put upon his family. In this story the reader gets a good sense of the mans character. He tells the men who beat him that he would still go vote if there was an election the next day. This section shows the mans determination. However the add on about his family at the end brings a new level of humanity to this text.

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"The worst thing was my mother, wife and daughter were in the room when they came" cm

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"The worst thing was my mother, wife and daughter were in the room when they came" cm

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it makes you think if things like this happen to you in front of people you want to protect and keep save. it all happened in from of family but his daughter that was telling them to leave him.

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" Colored men came up ans says " i do not care how many are riding around i am a replublican and expect to vote the ticket " MV that just shows how brave africans americans are to stand up for what they believe in but how easy it is to get shot at for saying  it 

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" Colored men came up ans says " i do not care how many are riding around i am a replublican and expect to vote the ticket " MV that just shows how brave africans americans are to stand up for what they believe in but how easy it is to get shot at for saying  it 

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"Let the pubic opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be afflicted with domestic disorder."  AG

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"Let the pubic opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be afflicted with domestic disorder."  AG

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This quote is explaining how citizens are the ones that need to be heard. Citizens who experience these acts should influence what should be done. It shouldn't be up to a few biased people, let the citizens share their opinions. Only when the citizens are heard will there be actual change in a society.

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"You could not hear your ears hardly for the flags waving and flapping over your head." SB

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"You could not hear your ears hardly for the flags waving and flapping over your head." SB

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This quote stands out in this reading because it captures how overwhelming a situation like this would be. When reading this text the reader feels the mental and sensory overload that the narrator must have felt. This quote also captures the pressure from different political parties. It is stated that the american flag is being flown on federal buildings, but the confederate flag is literally over the narrator.

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"I do not care how many are riding around, I am Republican and expect to vote the ticket"  cm

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"I do not care how many are riding around, I am Republican and expect to vote the ticket"  cm

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He was basically on his own and he is the only one who says anything about the republicans. no one is doing anything about it but one.

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"It is now left with our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs." L.D.

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"It is now left with our people to say whether or not they intend to regulate their own civil affairs." L.D.

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This quote speaks strongly about how problems can't be fixed by laws alone. When it comes to societal problems, it needs to be society who fixes it. And when people stand by and watch idly, the problem becomes worse. This quote sticks because of how relevant it is today with police brutality.

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"For the reason that victims are afraid to make complaints, no warrants are issued, and consequently the sheriff or other proper officer is powerless to make arrests" cm

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"For the reason that victims are afraid to make complaints, no warrants are issued, and consequently the sheriff or other proper officer is powerless to make arrests" cm

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everyone is basically scared to do any proper thins is because they get arrested. but they also don't know if would get arrested.

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¨Regrets that bands of disguised men had recently been whipping and otherwise maltreating white and colored citizens of this section¨ VS

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¨Regrets that bands of disguised men had recently been whipping and otherwise maltreating white and colored citizens of this section¨ VS

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This shows that members of the KKK weren´t just abusing their power against African-American voters but against white citizens. People of both colors were being harassed.

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"Let public opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be affiliated with domestic disorder". SB

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"Let public opinion condemn violent acts as wrong, and society will no longer be affiliated with domestic disorder". SB

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This quote stands out in the reading because it captures the mindset of people making change not laws. I agree with this line of thinking and believe it is the only way for change. In the contexts of this text, this quote was very bothersome. The true opinion of all people isn't going to be represented if the people in charge, or the people who have the power do not allow the majority to rule. Similar to the way the presidential election works (aside from the KKK aspect). The majority is not always represented because majority and electoral college do not a line.