As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews… — Aviva Cantor Copy Share Image
“The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of… — Albert Maltz 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
“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
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
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
I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
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“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“We cannot shoot our way to justice, We cannot lynch our way to liberty. We cannot nuke our way to peace, We… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and… — D. L. Hughley Copy Share Image
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many… — Fred Shuttlesworth Copy Share Image
If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
What happened after World War I was disgraceful. Most veterans, like my great-uncle, were squashed back into place. Congress couldn't pass an… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
“Elijah Muhammad himself has now been carrrying the same message for more than thirty years; he is not an overnight sensation, and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
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