The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women.… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“During my stay here in your city [Chicago] I have been visited by several groups of your people—all of whom have recited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and… — D. L. Hughley Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. — Vernon A. Walters Copy Share Image
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
