A Quote by Jacques Verges

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

Jacques Verges

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Against Am Know Lynching People Tendency

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Jacques Verges
French - Lawyer
March 5, 1925 - August 15, 2013

There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by powerful structures, on a people who are marginalized, is not new. The idea of lynching is well known, and the way we present it in the play makes the lynching somewhat of a relief, compared to the barbaric treatment they were receiving as sharecroppers.

Harry Lennix

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.

Carter G. Woodson

I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their desire to be connected to a family and a place. That was the only way you could tolerate and make sense of lynching and the terror that lynching represented.

Bryan Stevenson

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

Ida B. Wells

I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

Liz Cheney

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

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

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

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

Jack Kevorkian

Lynching is color line murder.

Ida B. Wells

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

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

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Ida B. Wells

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

Aviva Cantor

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

Ray Stannard Baker

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