Lynched Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
— Aime Cesaire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an…
— Jim Goad
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
— William Westmoreland
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In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
— Bharati Mukherjee
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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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: