Lynching Quotes

41 quotes by 33 authors

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate.… — Frantz Fanon
I mean it used to be, there was a time â€¦ when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are… — Ben Stein
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by… — Ida B. Wells
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust. — Aviva Cantor
I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK — Liz Cheney
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges
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
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing… — Albert Maltz
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more… — H. L. Mencken
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. — Vernon A. Walters
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
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
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel,… — Mark Twain
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to… — Rosa Parks
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse… — Samuel L. Jackson
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law. — Jack Kevorkian

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