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The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear."

From Time Magazine Archive

Once the struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive�against segregated education.

From Time Magazine Archive

We endured slavery 243 years and stayed here, and we shall still be here when lynch law shall have spent its force, and with us shall be our white brother.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace

Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law.

From The Short Constitution by Russell, William F.

The safeguards of trial by jury, regular judicial procedure, and habeas corpus were established, in order that the methods of civilized life might take the place of the rough-and-ready justice of lynch law.

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)



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