Civilization Quote by Ida B. Wells

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

“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

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

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

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

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

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to…

— Helen Keller

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

— Jacques Verges

“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

It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were…

— Shane Claiborne

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

— Ray Stannard Baker

“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police killings now…

— Jesmyn Ward