“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era.… — Jesmyn Ward 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
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
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
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 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
“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
