“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee 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
I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK — Liz Cheney 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
“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges 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
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most… — James H. Cone 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
“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
“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
“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
![“During my stay here in your city [Chicago] I have been visited by several groups of your people—all of whom have recited the story of the wrongs and injustices heaped upon the race; all of them appealing to me to denounce these outrages to the world. I have asked each delegation 'What are you…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10e/anonymous-1_1894_during-my-stay-here-in-your-city-chicago_2479258.jpg)
