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Adlai Stevenson: Lynching a human creature is no less murder when the act of a mob than when that of a single individual.

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Lynching a human creature is no less murder when the act of a mob than when that of a single individual.
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Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson equates lynching by a mob to murder, emphasizing the moral equivalence of both acts.

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