“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
“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
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
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
