The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.23, Courier Corporation
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.