Action Quote by Liz Cheney

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

— William Westmoreland

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

— 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

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

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is…

— Stokely Carmichael

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

— Samuel Beckett

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

“…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

This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed to do?…

— Malcolm X

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

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings…

— Ben Stein

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

— Ray Stannard Baker