“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
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
“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
When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. — Mamie Till 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
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
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
“There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened… — Teju Cole 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
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Elijah Muhammad himself has now been carrrying the same message for more than thirty years; he is not an overnight sensation, and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When we speak about fascism, we must not drift too far away from thinking about the people who collected the hair, the… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image