If our communal sense says you should die, the thing is neither better nor worse than if a sheriff hanged you." "I am not to be hanged by a sheriff," says the doctor, very cool and steady, "because I have committed no crime.

I am not to be killed by you because you dare not, in spite of all you say, outrage the law to that extent." And they looked each other in the eyes so long and hard that every one else in the schoolhouse held their breath.
"DARE not ?" says the pock-marked man.

And he reached forward slow and took that spider in his hand, and crushed it there, and wiped his hand along his pants leg.

"Dare not?
YES, BUT WE DARE.

The only question for us men here is whether we dare to let you go free." "Your defence of lynching," says Doctor Kirby, "shows that you, at least, are a man who can think.