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Conceding a right to lynch for one crime concedes the right to lynch anyone for anything
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- Ida B. Wells American journalist and civil rights leader (1862 to 1931)
They forget that a concession of the right to lynch a man for a certain crime, not only concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime, but (so frequently is the cry of rape now raised) it is in a fair way to stamp us a race of rapists and desperadoes.
Where this was said
↗Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)gutenberg.org
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