“A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“A lynching always makes a town look bad,” Alan Brownfield said. “But a card cheat often makes it look worse.” — Scott McCrea Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the… — Philip Dray Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from.… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how… — Bill O Reilly Copy Share Image
So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
“There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women.… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“We have a collection of 800 jars of soil in our museum. We collect these soils from lynching sites. People who are… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“During my stay here in your city [Chicago] I have been visited by several groups of your people—all of whom have recited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watch a Christ go up in flames, smiling, as… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
“When Hodges was presented to Harmon the next morning for a positive ID, Harmon reportedly couldn’t be sure he was her attacker.… — E.R. Bills Copy Share Image
“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas,… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“His voice was so faint that it was audible only to those in the first rows. “I haven’t got much to say,… — Kimberly Tilley Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
![“During my stay here in your city [Chicago] I have been visited by several groups of your people—all of whom have recited the story of the wrongs and injustices heaped upon the race; all of them appealing to me to denounce these outrages to the world. I have asked each delegation 'What are you…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/10e/anonymous-1_1894_during-my-stay-here-in-your-city-chicago_2479258.jpg)
