Lynching Quotes

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 of an insane mob.

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

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

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

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

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

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

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

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.