Lynched Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler… — Aime Cesaire
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched. — George H. W. Bush
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… — Ishmael Reed
I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We… — Maya Angelou
Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that… — Mamie Till
If Iâ€™d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, Iâ€™d merely be another torchbearer in an… — Jim Goad
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob… — Douglas Adams
It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South,… — Desmond Tutu
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people… — Malcolm X
A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,… — Malcolm X
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. — Bharati Mukherjee
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. — Aldous Huxley
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street… — Safak Pavey
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. — Jon Ronson

Who Wrote These Lynched Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Lynched Quotes as follows: