Law Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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 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

“South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with being impudent…

— 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

“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s…

— Adam Serwer

“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

“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett