#lynch

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. ↗

— Laura Dern

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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

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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.

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I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

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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

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

— Ida B. Wells

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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

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. ↗

— Jack Nance

#just #lynch #ordinary #people #sees

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

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