Quotes by Lynching If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing. Sean Covey lynchingflowchoices 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 lynchingraceyears When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed. Shane Claiborne lynchingracemean 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 lynchingchoicespeople I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace. Studs Terkel communistlynchingcancer Make a way, find a way or get out of the way. Ted Turner lynchingchoicesway The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. Vernon A. Walters lynchingunited-statescountry 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 lynchingcivilizationcountry You are the sum total of your choices. Wayne Dyer dominatinglynchingchoices You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be. Will Smith lynchingchoicesopportunity We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. William Arthur Ward lynchingchoicespersonality We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it. William Arthur Ward lynchinggratefulinspirational I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. William Westmoreland lynchingparticipationproblem«1234
