“The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man ! Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man ? Why, a man’s safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind⁠—as long as it’s daytime and you’re not behind him.