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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

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

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.


Henry Louis Gates


#censorship #justice #lynching

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

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


Jacques Verges


#am #i #i am #know #lynching

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


William Westmoreland


#i #know #lynched #lynching #my own

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.


Albert Maltz


#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

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


Jack Kevorkian


#lynching #trial

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.


George Allen


#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history






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