Alice Walker

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

American Author

Carter G. Woodson

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.

American Historian

Samuel L. Jackson

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.

Actor

David Shields

From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

Kyle MacLachlan

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.

American Actor

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

American Leader

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.

British Author

Jack Kevorkian

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

American Activist

Bob Filner

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

American Politician

Henry Louis Gates

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

American Critic

Originally referred to execution without trial, often in a racially charged context in the United States.

Historical Usage

Using 'lynch' carries a strongly negative and violent connotation, often linked to injustice.

Negative Connotation

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 went on to World War two we don't really know very much about it but for African Americans in this country that was an era defined by terror in many communities people had to worry about being lynched they had to worry about being bombed it was the threat of terror that shaped their lives and these older people come up to me now and they say mr. Stevenson you give

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 in this country. We haven't really wanted to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the history of lynching and segregation. People want to skip over the apology part, and you still see these Confederate flags and these symbols of resistance. It seems to me part of what is so urgent right now is that we get people to have the courage to say,

John Lewis and Bryan...

 We don't talk about lynching. We don't talk about segregation. And because of that, we don't have a healthy relationship with one another on the topic of race. Why are memorials, statues, schools, highways-- why is this symbolism so important? There are some people, I think, who think, it doesn't matter.

Why Is It So Hard to...

 a different way of recording history. A ghost story about someone being killed and coming back to haunt the town was an important arrow, a sign to look more deeply into the history of a place. Very often, if local legend featured a story about a ghost who had been hung, murdered or lynched,

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 It's tricky to love a country that doesn't always love you back. I think of the Black men who set off to fight for freedom in the world wars and then came home to be denied those very freedoms. Some of them lynched while wearing their military uniforms.

A Different Understanding...

 She analyzed specific cases through newspaper reports and police records, and interviewed people who had lost friends and family to lynch mobs. She risked her life to get this information. As a Black person investigating racially motivated murders,

How one journalist...

 Spoiler alert -- she did not. So then I wondered who else we missed. And it sent me on this deep dive through the archives. There were some surprises. The pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells, who started the campaign against lynching.

How we're honoring...

 regarding um exposing the the actual horrors and reality of lynching but i think just basically basically based on her own life experiences she realized that laws had to be changed and policies had

Black Women and the...

 decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the

The urgent need for...

 there wasn't a single incident of lynching or spitting or insulting of the Tulpa our society is a consensus on making peace our values need to be reframed from war to peace and the