Color Quote by Ida B. Wells Download Open image “Lynching is color line murder.” — Ida B. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Color Lines Lynching Murder
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
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… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society. A lynching… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“....the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
