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Lynching Quotes

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice Picture Quote #1

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law Picture Quote #1

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn’t know what I was being lynched for Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent Picture Quote #1

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! Picture Quote #1

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The only way to forestall the work of criticism is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape Picture Quote #1

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I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn’t know what I was being lynched for Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice (Lynching Quotes) This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law (Lynching Quotes) You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) 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. (Lynching Quotes) I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn’t know what I was being lynched for. (Lynching Quotes) 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. (Lynching Quotes) 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. (Lynching Quotes) Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent (Lynching Quotes) Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! (Lynching Quotes) Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) The only way to forestall the work of criticism is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape (Lynching Quotes) I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn’t know what I was being lynched for (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes) 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 (Lynching Quotes)