Argument Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

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

— Jacques Verges

“....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

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

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

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

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

“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

“In late twentieth-century America, this "jurisprudence of lawlessness" is a bit out of (fate. While there is a vigorous victim-rights movement in our nation''…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

— Liz Cheney

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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