“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
“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
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
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,… — Helen Keller 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
“…the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as… — Julius Lester 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
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
“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
“There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health. Still, I love traveling down there,… — George Carlin 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
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
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
“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
“Roosevelt was at his most impassioned when commented on the sadistic quality of lynchings: There are certain hideous sights which when once… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in… — Richard Grant 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
