Quotes About Lynchings

Lynchings—they're hate crimes," he said. "But the kid who thinks that [wearing a skirt] is anomalous and decides to play a prank is not committing a hate crime.

In the twenty years following the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 3,000 lynchings occurred.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

By the time Chester was born in i9o9, an agricultural depression, race riots in northern and southern cities, and nearly a thousand lynchings had further aggravated the precariousness of black lives.

There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health. Still, I love traveling down there, especially when I'm in the mood for a quick trip to the thirteenth century. I'm not someone who buys into all that 'New South' shit you hear; I judge a place by the number of lynchings they've had, overall.

Remember the Kentucky night-riders? Remember how trainloads of people have gone to enjoy lynchings? Not happen here? Prohibition—shooting down people just because they might be transporting liquor—no, that couldn't happen in America! Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours! We're ready to start on a Children's Crusade—only of adults—right now, and the Right Reverend

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.

I had, a decade earlier, read through 2,354 New York Times articles reporting lynchings between 1880 and 1920, so the events of the past year were less startling to me than the persistence, for well over a century, of the notion that the routine murder of black men is necessary for our collective safety.

Beginning in 1917 and going into the 1920s, so-called race riots, which were essentially lynchings on a grander scale, erupted in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and numerous other cities.75 Though labeled "riots," these outbursts were more like rampages, where whites went hunting for African Americans to pummel, burn, and torture.

political party was the Democrats. They oversaw the Jim Crow South and turned a blind eye to the thousands of lynchings25 that occurred there. The governors, the mayors, the police chiefs, the angry chanting mobs across the region, as seen in the ugliest footage of the Civil Rights movement, were all Democrats.

At this point the judge took over the questioning. Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi? he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? It is a history book, isn't it? asked the judge.

Señor Lam says those Los Angeles riots were one of the largest mass lynchings in United States history. Only ten men were arrested, only four were convicted, and even they will soon be released. No one in that nation ever pays for any crime against people who look different.

You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings