Word: fors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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For more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror...
Lynching is a denial of the right secured by law to every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and...
How many more such outbreaks must occur? How much longer must we congratulate ourselves upon "only 62 lynchings" for a given year, before the aroused conscience of the American people, efficiently asserting itself through Federal authority, moves to stamp out this national disgrace?
America is the accepted spokesman of world democracy, but a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign...
A few years ago a Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our...