“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
“A lynching always makes a town look bad,” Alan Brownfield said. “But a card cheat often makes it look worse.” — Scott McCrea 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
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker 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
“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman 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
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
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
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas,… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
“When Hodges was presented to Harmon the next morning for a positive ID, Harmon reportedly couldn’t be sure he was her attacker.… — E.R. Bills Copy Share Image
“A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watch a Christ go up in flames, smiling, as… — Toi Derricotte 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
“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
“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder… — Bruce Watson 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)
