#lynching

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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


#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

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


Jack Kevorkian


#lynching #trial

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.


Vernon A. Walters


#become #countries #lynching #many #nations

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.


Ray Stannard Baker


#back #every #gets #later #lynching

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


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