Lynching Quote by Scott McCrea

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

— Jacques Verges

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

“you need to know the Life Cycle Of A Lynch Mob: 1. Someone says something bad. 2. Someone else notices. 3. The second person…

— Susie Boniface

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already…

— Ida B. Wells

“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

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

— William Westmoreland

“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

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to…

— Carter G. Woodson

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

“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless…

— Carter G. Woodson

“....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