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Lynching Quotes by Ida B. Wells
- There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
More Lynching Quotes
- 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… — Frantz Fanon
- I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- 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 I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another… — Jim Goad
- By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of… — 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… — 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