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TIL Mark Twain in "The United States of Lyncherdom", asserts "moral cowardice" is "the commanding feature of the make-up of 9,999 men in the 10,000" and "no revolt against a public infamy or oppression has ever been begun but by the one daring man". Twain felt the States were not ready for essay.

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