Quotes by Lynching I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. James Weldon Johnson lynching race names A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. James Weldon Johnson lynching race country 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 lynching white talking Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself. Joyce Carol Oates lynching law men I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK Liz Cheney lynching taken believe 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 lynching hate men When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. Mamie Till lynching men son American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine. Malcolm X lynching rights past There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre. Mark Twain lynching names war The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. Martin Luther King, Jr. lynching government people Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! Mehmet Murat Ildan lynching compassion men America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people. Muhammad Ali lynching earthquakes america So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool. Muhammad Ali lynching white two And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. Neil Gaiman lynching guitar heart You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. Og Mandino lynching grief ignorance Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you. Peter Drucker lynching choices decision We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own. Richard Bach lynching design choices If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want. Robert Anthony lynching choices may 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 lynching hurt feet People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. Samuel L. Jackson lynching racism race «1234»
