Quotes about lynching
lynching america important
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent. Bryan Stevenson
lynching people slavery
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.
lynching important movement
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. Carter G. Woodson
lynching bridges ties
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind. D. L. Hughley
lynching walking-sticks genius
No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution. H. L. Mencken
lynching white america
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future. Helen Keller
lynching talking white
If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching. Jim Goad
lynching people tendencies
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. Jacques Verges
lynching white america
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America. Bernie Sanders
lynching years two
So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool. Muhammad Ali
lynching earthquakes america
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
lynching government people
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. Martin Luther King, Jr.
lynching america united-states
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders Ida B. Wells
lynching arms can-do
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
lynching should-have spirit
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
lynching choices flow
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing. Sean Covey
lynching problem participation
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. William Westmoreland
lynching choices personality
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. William Arthur Ward