"Lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law t…"

"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."

"We of the South have never recognized the right of the Negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never be…"

"The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the …"

"If it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy."

"I am utterly powerless. The State has no troops, and if the civil authorities at Ellisville are helpless, the States …"

"This is a white man's country, with a white man's civilization and any dream on the part of the Negro race to share s…"

"To defeat this measure, so help me God, I would be willing to speak every day of the year 1938."

"When once the flat-nosed Ethiopian, like the camel, gets his proboscis under the tent, he will overthrow the establis…"

"A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watch a Christ go up in flames, smiling, as if he were a …"