American history Quote by Assata Shakur

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so…

— Bryan Stevenson

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings…

— Ben Stein

Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States…

— H. L. Mencken

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

— Jacques Verges

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

— Toni Morrison

“LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police killings now…

— Jesmyn Ward

It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were…

— Shane Claiborne

“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era. There was…

— Jesmyn Ward

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

“....the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are…

— Julius Lester

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.…

— Ida B. Wells