“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells 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
“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman 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
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker 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 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 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 rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong 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
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
I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype.… — Rosa Parks 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
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police… — Jesmyn Ward 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
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
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken 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
I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how… — Bill O Reilly Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
