Top 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.
Ida B. Wells
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
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.
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker
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
Ida B. Wells 
Albert Maltz 
Carter G. Woodson 
Henry Louis Gates 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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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 
68% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
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.
58% of people like this quote
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
William Westmoreland
51% of people like this quote