#lynching

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#country #creature #crime #fury #hour

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

— Ida B. Wells

#arms #lynching #nothing #now #without

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#life #lynchings #life

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

— Jacques Verges

#am #i #i am #know #lynching

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. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#after #coming #day #house #killing

If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women. ↗

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

#interracial-interactions #lynching #men

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. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#cannot #him #i #i think #important