African american Quote by Malcolm X

“....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

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

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

“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

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

— Jacques Verges

“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era. There was…

— Jesmyn Ward

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 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

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

“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.”

— Michelle Alexander

“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

— Robert Ringer