If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges Copy Share Image
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Diodorus Siculus confessed His gradual ease among the likes of this: Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible Beheaded girl, outstaring axe And beatification, outstaring… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype.… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with… — Adam Serwer Copy Share Image
“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Ida was clearly exasperated by the fact that despite the motives that accompanied the lynching statistics published year after year—which Ida included… — Paula J. Giddings Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“We live in a society where the individual is far more empowered, but that brings other challenges. Once the mob gets going,… — Alison Flood Copy Share Image
Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
