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
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
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham 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
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
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells 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
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of… — Alice Walker 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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 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
“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee 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
