Civilization Quote by Ida B. Wells

“LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it…

— Ida B. Wells

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

— 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…

— 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…

— Ida B. Wells

Lynching is color line murder.

— Ida B. Wells

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of…

— George Allen

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…

— Jon Meacham

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

— Frantz Fanon