#lynching

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

A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watch a Christ go up in flames, smiling, as if he were a hooked fish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned. His charred body gives off light--a halo burns out of him. His face is scorched featureless; the hair matted to the scalp like feathers. One man stands with his hand on his hip, another with his arm slung over the shoulder of a friend, as if this moment were large enough to hold affection. ↗

— Toi Derricotte

#poetry #racism #violence #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

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. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#black #change #condition #curse #face

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

#crusade #did #important #lynching #more

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

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

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

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

— Jack Kevorkian

#lynching #trial