I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Anonymous, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) [full text]
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Anonymous, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) [full text]
Lincoln’s followers are depicted as those men and women composing the “free love” element; those who want religion abolished; negroes, who want it understood that the white man has no rights his black brother is bound to respect; women suffragists, who demand that men be made subject to female authority; tramps, who insist upon free lodging-houses; criminals, who demand the right to steal from all they meet; and toughs, who want the police forces abolished, so that “the b’hoys” can “run wid de masheen,” and have “a muss” whenever they feel like it, without interference by the authorities.
- Alexander McClure, Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories (1900) [full text]
Thus have the mobs of this country taken the lives of their victims within the past ten years. In every single instance except one these burnings were witnessed by from two thousand to fifteen thousand people, and no one person in all these crowds throughout the country had the courage to raise his voice and speak out against the awful barbarism of burning human beings to death.
Men and women of America, are you proud of this record which the Anglo-Saxon race has made for itself? Your silence seems to say that you are. Your silence encourages a continuance of this sort of horror.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, The Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics (1900) [full text]
