You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about…

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

— Ida B. Wells

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our…

— Malcolm X

Lynching is color line murder.

— Ida B. Wells

“The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century…

— James H. Cone

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

— Frantz Fanon

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think…

— Martin Luther King Jr

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and…

— H. L. Mencken

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of…

— George Allen

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the…

— Ida B. Wells

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

— Ida B. Wells

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the…

— Mark Twain

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks…

— Alice Walker

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to…

— Stephen Covey

“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era. There was…

— Jesmyn Ward