Lynching Quotes

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have… — Jon Meacham
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we… — Joyce Carol Oates
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of… — Ida B. Wells
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. — Ida B. Wells
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many… — Ida B. Wells
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change… — Carter G. Woodson
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. — Carter G. Woodson
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big… — Sean Covey
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most… — Betty Smith
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing… — Neil Gaiman
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings
Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate… — Frantz Fanon
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the… — George Allen
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The… — Ida B. Wells
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker
Dealing with the critics and the comments got me trippin.' Like my accent and my tone make it really hard to listen. I was scarred… — Big Krit

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