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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
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
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
