Lynching Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Law, Civilization, Territory

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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

  Arms, Can Do

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Country, Civilization, White

  "Reconstruction and Africa" (1919)

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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.

  Ida B. Wells

  Heart, Stories, Way

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.231, University of Chicago Press

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• It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Race, Years, Practice

  Source: medium.com

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• America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, Self

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• I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, African American, Police

  "Black Gain Is White Pain — How the White Right Justifies Racial Injustice" by Leonce Gaiter, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2014.

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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

  Writing, College, Firsts

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

  Jacques Verges

  People, Tendencies, Knows

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• The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, Religious, War

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Political, Spain

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are the sum total of your choices.

  Wayne Dyer

  Choices, Dominating

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Hatred, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• 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 .

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  Ida B. Wells

  Party, Punishment, Tables

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

  Vernon A. Walters

  Country, United States, Achieve

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• If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

  Jim Goad

  Talking, White, Black

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Feet, Legs

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• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Judging, Political

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• Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Men, Method

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• Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Empowering

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.545, Mango Media Inc.

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• And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.

  Fred Shuttlesworth

  Determination, Moving, Men

  "Eyes on the Prize" Interview, repository.wustl.edu. November 7, 1985.

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• When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

  Mamie Till

  Son, Men, People

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• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Race, White Man

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