A Quote by Malcolm X

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

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Malcolm X
American - Activist
May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

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

William Westmoreland

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

George H. W. Bush

I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

Patrick McGoohan

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

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

Evangeline Lilly

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

Malcolm X

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

David Hewson

When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

Steve Jones

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

Bharati Mukherjee

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

Jon Ronson

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

Assata Shakur

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Aldous Huxley

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

Aime Cesaire

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

Spike Lee

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.

David Shields

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