“This new generation, for example, is not content with preach…”

“This new generation, for example, is not content with preachings against that vile form of collective murder — lynch law-which has broken out in our midst anew. We know that it is murder, and a deliberate and definite disobedience of the Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." We do not excuse those in high places or in low who condone lynch law.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Address before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. December 6, 1933

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