“You know, one side of me was always angry that you were trying to force me to say what was too obvious to need saying.   Maybe there was a point to your demand.  It changes the conversation to say that the only reason to oppose an anti-lynching law is because you want the right to keep lynching people.”

“Mah constituents will not be bound by a federal anti-lynching law, suh, nor will ah betray them by voting for one!”  

“But everyone should have openly and repeatedly said what those people were demanding  — the right to murder and terrorize.”