#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

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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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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

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

— Jacques Verges

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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

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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

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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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

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