Lynching Quotes

Al Gore is now saying, `I`m with you guys on guns.` In any other time or place you`d be looking for a lynching mob. (2000)

This is a political lynching, ... We`re not going to sit back and let the Republicans overturn the election and thwart the will of people.

It`s no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it`s just being done covertly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

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.