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
“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
“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
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
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition… — Carter G. Woodson 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge 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
The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was… — Mona Charen 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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 the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because… — Mark Twain 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
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
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